Coughing, Itching, Sniffling, Afro, and a trip to the ER!

For a while, it seemed that I was doing so well in keeping my blog updated fairly often. I even started to get crafty and add pictures and other accessories...but then I just stopped. Well, it is that time again. Time to get you all caught up with what's been going on in my life. I have so much to talk about and I think that the most effective way of sharing would be by subject. So here goes.

Soccer at SGC

Since I am working with Pete this fall that means that I have to attend every single home game of the SGC Men’s Soccer Team. Yeah. I never realized how much I enjoyed soccer. The actual game, that is. I mean with all that running and kicking and screaming and head shots and goals and nets and gnats and sun…who wouldn’t love it? There is something about being outside in the warm sun with friends and a cold bottle of water, watching very toned and athletic college boys, and girls, do something I could never in a million years do…chase a ball up and down a field for over an hour. It’s exciting. I have gotten so caught in the game that I even let out an occasional, “Let’s go Tigers!”

The last game I attended, this past Wednesday, was the best yet. I can’t recall the school we were playing…of wait…it was some military college. Anyway, the girl’s game went fine, they actually won! Now if you know anything about the success rate of the SGC Women’s Soccer team, you would understand why this win was such a big thing. They don’t win. God love them, they just don’t. But they did last Wednesday and everyone was so excited for them.

But then it was the boy’s turn. Now it is just a fact that boys play a much faster and usually more aggressive game of soccer as compared to the girls. But this game was the most intense yet! The boys were winning…by a good lead…and the other team started to get a little upset that things weren’t going as they would have liked. I had my eye on this hot guy, #5, wearing a John Deere hat and giving me the eye. Well, either me or the cute blonde girl sitting beside me. Anyway, for some reason…our boys started calling him “teabag.” I would hope that most of you know what that is referring to. I assume that at some point during the game, player #5’s ‘bag’ landed, by mistake I am sure, on the face of another player. Well, he didn’t take to the name very kindly and got a little pissed. So when one of our players yelled out “Teabag,” he didn’t like it and responded with, “Yeah, in your mouth!” OOOOOOHHHH! Now what! Let’s just say they had to call in Public Safety to keep things under control.

Speaking of Public Safety

We recently got in a new group of officers at our Public Safety Office. Apparently, due to budget cuts, it became to expensive to pay officers weekly rates, so the college opted to outsource the job to an independent security company and simply pays one flat fee per month to that company for the use of it’s officers.

All I really have to say about these new people is that they are nice. They are young and seem to like the power and the golf carts and the tack ass uniforms. OMG! You would have to see it to believe it. These people wear the most ridiculous red and blue striped polyester pants and a dingy white shirt. They have already blessed me with 3 parking tickets to date. Do they not realize that I get them dropped? Please, stop wasting those damn tickets. I ain’t paying shit! NEXT!

Pete’s New Workers

So as you all know, I work for Pete Brown in the media department of the college. Well, this semester she has broken a record for the most student workers in one department at one time. I promise you there’s like 15 people working for her. There is Me, Kevin, Kareem, Freshtae, Jennifer, Alicia, Danilo, Gato, Greg, Erin, and Jesse. I’m sure I am forgetting someone, but you get the point. I like them all. I enjoy their company and we have a great time.

The newest one, Jesse, is a guy from Thomasville, Ga., who grew up in Tallahassee, Fl. He is an interesting guy. He can be sort of strange, but he is cool. He says that he hates girls and could never see marrying one and that he really seems to connect best with gay guys because they are more emotional than regular guys, but he is madly in love with this girl from Valdosta. So I don’t know. Is he, isn’t he? Does it matter? Well duh, of course it matters stupid. I want to know. Damn.

70’s Night

I don’t really see a point in posting about this since it is already on like 5 other blogs and most of you already know about it, but I will give my little take on it anyway.

I was in Wal-Mart at some point…about a week or two ago…and I purchased an afro from the Halloween aisle. It was funny and I love wigs…and no, I don’t do Drag, nor am I interested! But anyway, I got it and took it to Ashley Purvis’ house one night and had my little jacket on and was stylin’ 70’s style when someone suggested that we all dress up in 70’s attire and go up to Wal-Mart and show off our new digs. I, being the wannabe costume designer/set decorator/actor/chocolate sampler, chose outfits for us all. Well, everyone except Justin. Freaking party pooper! We all looked super cute, especially Ashley.

We loaded up in Drew’s car and “headed out on the highway, looking for adventure!” We had a 70’s cd that Ashley and I had made the night before blasting in the car. We pulled up to Wal-Mart with YMCA blasting out the car and went inside and spent like 30 minutes roaming the store taking random photographs and scaring people off the aisles. It was fun and allowed us all to loosen up and go crazy. You should all try something similar sometime. We’re doing 80’s night next. Wanna join us? Let me know!

Other Miscellaneous Stuff

This past weekend, Ashley P., Drew, KT, and I all ventured to Valdosta to waste away a night that would otherwise be spent at Ashley’s house drinking Kool-Aid and playing on laptops. We got there and ate at Chic-fil-a. It was really good, despite these teen freak girls, their out of control staring problem, and my incredibly sore throat…more on that later. We went to the mall and shopped for about an hour, visited Best Buy where we encountered those same stupid girls, who this time set off some sort of alarm, one I had set off earlier and the guy told me that it was acting crazy, but still, it was funny to watch them feel stupid. Haha! Dumb bitches! That’s what you get for wearing such ridiculous outfits. After that, we stopped by Books-A-Million where I, of course, purchased the latest issues of Out and the Advocate, we visited Starbucks…really cute barista there, and stopped by Burger King and Wal-Mart and came home. It was fun. Except for my...

Outrageously, Horrible, Incredible, Unbearable, Mutated Case of Sore Throat

So, for about the last week and a half I have had a case of sinus congestion. No big deal. Nothing a little Tylenol Allergy/Sinus can’t fix. Well, about Thursday of last week, my sinus congestion turned into a full blown cold. Fever, Coughing, Runny nose, Achy bones, the whole works. My throat began to hurt a little, but no more than is expected with your average cold. But then, my mildly sore throat became the most unbearable thing one could imagine. It started hurting so bad that I couldn’t even swallow. I would have to allow my spit to accumulate for like 5 minutes before swallowing, in an attempt to reduce the frequency of pain.

I got in contact with my cousin who works at a doctor’s office and she was able to get me some free samples of a prescription grade antibiotic. I started taking it that day along with Nyquil at night and cough drops during the day. It didn’t have any affect on my pain. Although the pain was intense and hard to handle, I decided to go to Valdosta. It got even worse that night and I had to stop at the local Wal-Mart and purchase some Chloroseptic Spray to try and ease the pain. It felt as though my throat was closing by the minute. It was actually getting hard to breathe…let alone swallow.

I called my mom and told her that I thought I need to go to the Emergency room and get it seen about. She told me that I shouldn’t, but yeah, I did anyway. I went to the hospital that night with Ashley P., Drew and Justin. We signed in and got back in the ER in less than 20 minutes. The nurse told me that my throat was really swollen and that I looked like I needed something to decrease the swelling. She gave me a Lorcet to take away all my pain and worries and then swabbed my throat with some liquid Litacaine to take care of the swelling right away. She told me I had a really good gag reflex…or that I had none at all. I was happy about that!

I waited for about another hour and a half for the doctor to come in. When he finally did get there, all he had to say was, “Finish your antibiotic. Take some Tylenol. And gargle 5 times a day for 4 minutes with warm, salty water.” WTF? That’s it! That’s all his ass wanted to say to me. I was so freaking pissed. He could have at least given me a shot or something. But no, just some asinine advice and told me to have a good night. Yeah, or at least what was left of it.

Update: I feel a whole lot better. My throat isn’t hurting now and I don’t have and cold symptoms. I am happy. I just can’t wait to get that bill. I am guessing somewhere around $1000 at least, since they are adding a third floor onto the hospital. What do you think?

Well, I guess that about does it for the update. I don’t think I will ever wait this long again to post since I can’t leave out any detail. I hope you’ve enjoyed. Thanks for reading. Until next time, adios.