Hey. Did you miss me? Did you notice I was gone? Are you even reading this? I fear I may have lost the one or two loyal/casual readers I even had to begin with, but it’s no one’s fault. As blase as this blog was before, having not posted in over a month probably increased its boring factor exponentially.
I will attempt a reconciliation, dear reader(s).
There are a couple of excuses and disclaimers. Firstly, I was sick (no joke) for about 6 weeks. I just finished my third (THIRD!) round of antibiotics about two days ago, and took my last mega-antihistimine/decongestant last night, after regaining (seriously!) full hearing in my left ear sometime in the past week. Basically, my bronchitis (yes, the crud from the beginning of April) essentially moved uptown, Jeffersons-style, to reside in my upper respiratory system sometime around the middle of last month. At first, I just couldn’t hear on one side. But then…the PAIN. The emergency room visit. The confused PCP two weeks later. And the bizarre tests at the ENT (though actually, these were fun; ever had a timpanogram?). Finally, my saga ends this Thursday with my ENT checkup, where I will hopefully be told that I do not need to go for my referred hearing exams at the audiologist…
So there’s THAT.
But it’s true that, perhaps under different circumstances, I still would have been writing to this blog- if for no other reason than to complain, and delude myself that other people would be sympathetically browsing. But that is not exactly the case.
What has been consuming vast quantities of my time is my Italian Guest. There is plenty that I could say about this, but aside from complete lack of idle time, I also wanted to wait until I could be reasonably certain that neither he nor my friend K., who is his cousin, would ever read this.
The Italian, for those of you who are familiar with the situation, is endeavoring to maintain a steady atmosphere of sexual tension, despite the fact that I’m now firmly convinced that nothing will ever happen between us… I really need to find a boyfriend.
Someone from this country. Someone who clearly finds me attractive. Don’t get me wrong, I think F. and I have both been enjoying this time together, but it’s still a tough situation, plus I haven’t been getting ANY work done… He originally intended to move into a sublet room about 2 weeks ago, but the guy that I’d sort of connected him with has been unimaginably flaky. So he’s still here. Last night, we read The Doubtful Guest together.
So anyway, there you have it in a nutshell. I’m alive. I’m feeling somewhat guilty about my poor correspondence (not so much this blog, as being incomunicado to phone calls and e-mails) of late. I’m basically okay, though the shit may very soon hit the fan with respect to school and work… This post is already rather extended, but to sum up:
In the case of school, I have to somehow totally bowl over my psycho dissertation advisor with a lengthy, ingenious, and completely revamped lit review in a little less than a month, and possibly write a paper on Borderline Personality Disorder for an independent study in the next week despite having not read more than 2 chapters on the subject.
In the case of work, I will be saying farewell to all my patients in the next 10 days or so, and some of them are pretty upset; I hesitate to flatter myself by thinking that they all just really like working with me (as opposed to the inherent frustration they will experience in transferring over to a brand new person who doesn’t know them), but I know that at least a couple of them will genuinely be sad to see me personally go. And lastly, I’m hoping to avoid a subpoena being threatened by the agency that referred Million-Dollar-Lady, as referenced in a previous post. Apparently, she’s stated in court that the reason her evaluation is not yet completed is because our hospital has not provided her with enough appointments (rather than the fact that she’s completely missed 5 of the 10 appointments I tailored to HER schedule, and shown up late and/or left early for 4 more of those). Crazy people- yay!
Well, this has been simultaneously exhaustive and in brief, hasn’t it? If anyone is reading, thanks I guess…I hope it’s been mildly entertaining…
Ciao for now-
