A conversation between my mother and myself

Mom: Dad, Keith and I are going to the cottage on Thursday. Are you sure you will be okay by yourself?

Me: Yeah, I'll be fine. If I get scared or lonely, I'll invite Tony over.

Mom: (long pause) You'll invite Tony over to stay?...If you 're going to, you need to tell me because I need to clean the washroom.

:D

I love that her biggest concern was that she needed to clean the washroom :)

Update

Okay, so upon talking to a friend, I realized I should probably update this again :P. Just a short post for now, but I ended up going to California. The chest x-ray showed that I had bronchitis, not pneumonia. The trip was great.

Stupid pneumonia

So today I learned that should my bout of pneumonia not clear up, I won't be getting on the plane on Tuesday. Which blows. I know my health is more important and lord knows I don't want to end up using the health care system there, but still. I was looking forward to California so much.

Frick. Why did I get pneumonia now? Why couldn't this just be a bad cold? Ah well. My chest x-ray comes back tomorrow so I'll see how bad it is then. In the meantime I'll just keep drinking lots of water and tea. I have the medication the doctor filling in for my doctor gave me too. (Yeesh, what a time for my doctor to be on vacation.) But the doctor I saw was really nice. She was listening to my breathing and then went "I think you have pneumonia." To which I replied with, "Um, what?"

I was expecting something, but not that. I figured it was something a little worse, given that Buckley's had stopped working for my cough.

I hate pneumonia. It's potentially killing my trip and worse, now that I've had it once, I'm apparently more susceptible to getting it in the future. :(

What a lovely mood I'm in.....

How the hell does my brother's getting into the social work program lead to me getting lectured on studying properly?

I'm happy for him, but ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! Leave me alone! I get it! I suck at studying and life!!!!! I don't need people to keep pointing it out!

(P.S. Sorry for all the exclamation marks.)

Current Obsessions

Currently I'm obsessed with:

• Sushi Cat---a web game too addictive for it's own good http://www.freewebarcade.com/game/sushi-cat/
• California---because I can't wait to go on vacation :)

I need to stop being obsessed with both and actually do some studying.

California

The end of April can't come fast enough. I'm so looking forward to this trip. :D

I've noticed that when I'm really stressed out, or when I feel like my life is falling to pieces, I get a strong urge to drop everything and travel. It's more about getting away than really wanting to see a place, and I'm pretty sure that this counts as running away rather than wanting to deal with my problems. It's how I've always been.

When I began to study journalism, I think that's what I wanted out of it; to be able to travel while reporting on what was happening. And now, having a boyfriend and slowly gaining stability in my life has been a good thing (though you would never guess it from my previous post). I still have the urge to travel and get away, but it's nice to know that when i return home, there are people here who love me.

I suppose that much of the idealism I had going into journalism has been replaced with cynicism. Journalism, like everything else, is far from perfect.

This post makes absolutely no sense, and I apologize.