Happy Hump Day everyone!

I’m finally starting to feel better I think. Two Saturdays ago I got pretty sick. Some stomach virus/flu thing. Once, I got the flu really bad when I was in 5th grade and pretty much puked my guts out for days on end. Every since then, I haven’t been able to throw up when sick. Some people might think this is a good thing. It’s not always really. I mean, sometimes when you’re sick, it makes you feel better to throw up. Well anyway, since I can’t throw up I just sort of gag and get all nauseas and dizzy and stuff. It’s not fun. So when I was sick two Saturdays ago, if I could have thrown up, I would have been throwing up left and right. Instead, I just got to be very nauseas and gaggy and had diarrhea which is another fun treat in itself. I was also extremely achy. Luckily, the Monday was a day off (Martin Luther King day), and the Tuesday brought snow so school was cancelled. I did miss two days of work though. I didn’t go back until last Friday. It’s Wednesday now, and I’m starting to feel more like my old self again, which is definitely nice.

Some news about work- There is this conference I wanted to go to in March. It’s a two day thing, so I’d have to miss two days of work and stay overnight and stuff. I wanted to go because there are a lot of neat workshops that are being offered (some that give you way cool free stuff!) on things I am interested in. The conference workshops are largely technology oriented, but there are other general education ones as well. The main ones I am interested in are the podcasting ones, the animation ones, and the school newspaper/digital camera ones. Anyway, to go to this conference I figured I’d have to use two of my personal days and take off work and pay the conference fee and hotel out of my own pocket. I decided to ask my principal if there was any way I could go to this and be compensated for it. Well, Monday it finally got all sorted out. The budget committee decided that since we’re getting a lot of new technology stuff for our school (mostly document cameras and stuff) that sending me to this conference to learn about new things would be good. So… I get to go and everything is going to be paid for by the school! I even get reimbursed for mileage and all. I’m super excited! I’ve never gone out of town before, by myself, to something like this. I’ve gone to conferences before, but I never had to stay at a hotel by myself or anything like that. I think it’ll be neat though. I just hope I get into the workshops I want. So, on March 5 -7 I will be off hopefully having fun and getting free goodies in Louisville.

My new craft experiment: I bought some yellow yarn and Crocheting for Dummies last weekend. A couple of people have told me that the book is a pretty good one for helping to learn how to crochet. I’ve wanted to learn how for awhile now. I also bought this cd-rom that has crochet lessons on it. I tried it out yesterday, and I think it will definitely help a lot! The videos in the lessons are really good, and I guess I am pretty visual about things! Maybe one day I will crochet a masterpiece! Until then… I will practice.

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