So... I finally finished with my college career!! WOOT! I get to become an official alumnae of Auburn University tomorrow! I'm super excited, but really bummed at the same time. After all the complaining about Auburn I have done, I'm not ready to leave it. I don't want to leave the town that has been my home for over 5 years, and I really don't want to leave my friends. I'll miss hanging out with my Spanish Civilization crew. I'll miss my sorority sisters. I'll miss stupid Haley Center and its confusing quadrants. I never have to sit through another lecture for as long as I live... unless I decide to go to graduate school... And hats off to this girl Mei Tsutsumi at meiillustration.com for this cute little drawing... I googled for an image that might summarize my current feelings, and hers nailed it. :)I made straight... Bs this semester. Kind of a bummer, but hey... it was my last semester. Of course I went out with friends a few times when I should have been studying. I think that was time well spent. My whole family is coming in town tomorrow morning so we can take the obligatory Samford Lawn graduation pictures. But sad day... it's 90% chance of rain tomorrow. Hopefully I can still get some good pictures.
Worst part of all this: I started feeling kind of crappy last weekend at my parents' house. I got a bit of a fever and slept a lot, but I had to go back to school for my last final on Tuesday morning. Tuesday morning rolls around... I feel like absolute sh!t. I feel like sick dookie and I think I'm going to fail my final since my dookie-feeling self didn't really study. Anyway, I suffer through the final, hop the transit back to my apartment, hop into my car and head to the Urgent Care center. I sit there for a bit... waiting for the nurse to call me back so she can weigh me (worst part), get my blood pressure (always on the lower end... and the reason why I'm like a drunk when you try to wake me up in the morning), prick my finger, and take my temperature. Hmm... fever of 101... no wonder I felt a little off during my final. After I told her all my symptoms, she tells me to blow my nose, but don't wipe it. EW! She then takes a cotton swab and swabs my boogies... I'm convinced she has the worst job ever. They take my wonderful sample and test it for Swine Flu or H1N1 whatever the proper name for it is now... and it's POSITIVE. Crap. Thanks, God... for your wonderful gift to celebrate graduation. Swine Flu. And I think this is the second time I've had Swine Flu, but the first time I didn't go to the doctor. I only went because my symptoms were worse this time. Apparently that's why I have had Swine Flu twice... there is a newer, more severe strain that started showing up recently. Looks like I'm the factory tester for Swine Flu strains.
So... I finally got rid of my fever about 12 hours ago and have been stuck in bed in my lonely apartment for the past 3 days now. I can't even tell you how many movies I have watched... and the entire first season of NBCs show Community. Hopefully I can keep my fever away and I'll no longer be considered "contagious" by tonight. Thank goodness I won't have to graduate with a doctor's mask on my face, but with some of the crappy mess-ups I've had to deal with from Auburn and the officials, maybe I sould cough into my hand a few extra times before I shake their hands on my walk across the stage. ;)
Hmm... makes you think just how humans got "swine flu"... Rule #1: Don't lick pigs.
