Tuesday

Registration for summer and fall opened yesterday. I was all ready to go; had my classes listed and everything...

I needed a registration PIN.

I got that last night, and I was all ready to go again. I had my classes listed and everything planned out...

AND there's a HOLD on my account. When I asked why, it told me my IMMUNIZATIONS are not up to date.

Now, when I was in there last MONTH, I turned around at the desk after turning my forms in and said, "Is there anything ELSE you need?"

"No."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, we have everything we need from you."

Now today, it seems, the records have vanished off the face of the Earth. They're saying they don't have them.

Let me note: This is the third time in two weeks that someone has "lost" some papers of mine that were important.

I turned those in. I made them make a copy. I watched a copy being MADE in front of me.

So you can see why my frustration with this whole business is at an all-time high.

I am sitting here with the two copies on my LAP as we speak, in case I need to...

Ah, they just called. Resolved.

If any more papers go missing, someone's going to get their head bitten off. It's like a damned conspiracy.

Ta,
Bec

PS: Something of note happened today, and I'm going to have to run a test and see if it was a fluke. I stood on my feet for a half-hour today and didn't notice it.

You may scoff, but every time I have stood for longer than a few minutes in the last two years, my back has ached like hell. If I stand long enough, my back hurts for days.

So today was terribly significant when I turned to my friend and remarked that we had been standing around for a half-hour and I didn't hurt yet.

Maybe the reflexologist back at Harlaxton was right. Maybe my kidneys were blocked. Maybe this little detox unblocked them and I'm suddenly having no back pain thanks to things being set right again.

I'll never be cured of fibro. That I'm sure of. But it doesn't mean I'm not going to fight it every stinking step of the way.

Possibly today was just a good day. It might be that I stand for a long period tomorrow and find out that my back hurts just as much as it always has. But I'm hoping a little bit that it won't.