Monday and Tuesday have both been a good start to the week. Monday was filled with many mindless tasks and manual labor in the library. Sometimes the job consists of that... and I kinda like it. J. had me cut down some boxes that had been used to ship new books to Baumholder MHS. She advised me to always save boxes because you'll need them eventually, i.e. for discarding materials. So I cut the tape (slowly, painfully taxing, difficult to do) so the boxes could be folded flat and then stored in a closet. I'd gotten through all but two of the boxes. She came out to chat and watched me cut the next-to-last box's tape. She said, "Okay, this is too painful for me to watch. Let me do the last one! What's wrong?? Is it because you're left handed and the scissors don't work??" Yes. That was exactly it. I had such trouble getting those scissors between the flaps to cut that heavy-duty tape! It was pretty funny.
*Note to self: make sure I have a pair of left-handed scissors at my future desk in my future library.
The day was really nothing exciting, but good nonetheless. I got home to a sickly roommate. Everyone has been getting sick with throat stuff that requires antibiotics. Luckily, Jenna has no throat pain. Jenna has had a lot of sinus drainage, pluggage, froggy voice, and a yucky cough. Throughout the evening, she started to develop a fever... 99.5, so at least it wasn't too high. I Lysoled everything.. a couple of times. And hid out in my cold room that I keep the door to shut (I keep it that way because I like it that way. And on a positive note, less germ multiplying!) and Jenna hid out in her room and slept. She planned to not go to school Tuesday and go to the doctor.
One girl was "deathly ill" on Sunday night. She only slept an hour--she has strep throat AND tonsillitis so badly that she was throwing up most of the night and had a bad fever. She was taken to the krankenhaus (sick house, a.k.a. hospital) on Monday, driven by Terry's Mercedes Ambulance Service. She was given medicine, told to not go to school until at least Friday, to not be in contact with anyone, and is hopefully on the road to recovery! Looks like her roommate will be spending some nights on the couch next door.
Tuesday was a pretty busy day at school, so it went by pretty quickly. I talked with a few teachers who want me to do some researchy things with their classes. I am starting to do more of the regular library processes on my own.. since some of them are not every single day type things, it's going to take a few times before I get it down. Today I dealt with the overdue notices, which made me feel like an idiot in front of J., no juicy details, just stupid little mistakes. Hopefully she doesn't think I'm an idiot. We actually get along very well. She is so hilarious; I love being with her! And she's great at her job, too. I am sure to learn a lot.
Terry wasn't able to take Jenna to the doctor today because she has some fluid thing going on in her eye. As she describes it, she is "watching Mardi Gras in her eyeball." Haha! Not fun, but a funny description. Anyhow, she does not have a detached retina (luckily found that out today), but she did have her eyes dilated and therefore couldn't drive. Jenna was just told to rest up and maybe could go to the krankenhaus tomorrow if she needed to still.
After school, J. took me to the mail room and to the Commissary. I still haven't gotten my package from Dad yet!.. and he mailed it out on Friday the 14th. I'm starting to get a little worried about it. I hope it is safe. I also haven't gotten the letter my grandparents mailed to me. I am so anxious! When I do actually get to the mail room (clear on the other side of base), it's such a disappointment to not have anything. :/ Oh well.... I do have the internet to communicate with everyone.. and a phone line. But mail is still nice. :) At the Commissary I got some more Lysol, butter, and cottage cheese. Clearly life essentials.
I came home to find Jenna feeling much better. She looks better, sounds better, was up moving around. I am glad. I feel less worried about being exposed to the BSU Student Teachers' Plague. Maybe it will miss me! I can only hope.... Though I'd rather come down with what Jenna has than than the throat ickies. Cross my fingers, cross your fingers!!
Tonight will be filled with relaxing, chatting, reading, and chicken and rice. Also, it started snowing today more than I've seen it snow here. It started in the mid to late morning and didn't quit until late afternoon. The wind was something fierce this morning. As we were walking to school, Quintin and Al mentioned it felt like we were in Funcie Muncie! Nooooo! It was very windy. Anyhow, that wind must've been the front end of this snow. There is actually a little bit on the ground. Not all of the snow stuck, but a little bit did. The roads and sidewalks are very wet and maybe a little slick. It was awfully pretty, though.
Here are a couple pictures from outside my apartment window... I'm sure most of you have memorized the view by now, but here's the snow that stuck.
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