So the doctor wants Mom at the hospital at 7:15 tomorrow morning. Which means I'll need to get up at five so I can get dressed and have everything ready to go so we can get there on time. I don't want to wake up at five. </whine>

So Supernatural happened. Short version, I liked it. ( Long version has spoilers, obviously. )

Now I have to pound out the rest of my word count for today, and go to bed because I have to be up in six hours.

No work this Wednesday because of Veteran's Day. Seems kind of weird to put a holiday right in the middle of the week, but whatever. One more reason to love Wednesday, I guess. I'm not working Thanksgiving week either due to parent teacher conferences.

The kids get a snack of sorts (it's really more of a meal) right before we start classes and today it was giant chicken patties, like a person would get in a sandwich, only without the bun. Easily one of the strangest things I've ever served them. I guess Veteran's Day is throwing everybody off.

In other news, nothing's really happening. Which is sad. But Kim and I are going to be doing something tomorrow because her birthday was today, and there's new comics on Wednesday, including Booster Gold's Blackest Night issue which I know is going to make me flail-y and very sad. Plus, there's new Glee, which looks epic. And hey, I get a day off.

Went to the doctor today because Dad was suddenly all worried about the fact that I was sick, so I missed work again, and Mom was worried I was getting bronchitis again. Turns out-

It's not swine flu!

It's not bronchitis!

It's just a mild flu and a nasty cough. Since the flu part's over, I can go back to work tomorrow.

In other news, I'm quickly getting addicted to Glee, and it's entirely my sister's fault.

So far, I've been doing at least 200 words a day for mini_nanowrimo. Granted, they've both been written under the wire, and it's only the second day, but it's still much better than my goal of 100 words a day, so I'm calling it a success.

Didn't go to work today because I'm trying to feel as close to 100% as possible before heading back to deal with all the kids. Fortunately, I'm feeling much better, so whatever it was seems to be mostly gone. Except for my cough, but tends to stick around every time I get sick, and even that's not too bad.

Also, yesterday was squonk79's birthday and today is fondued_jicama's birthday so happy birthday to both of you! Hope it was (or will be) a good one.

And in case you guys were wondering, I got another new moodtheme (aw yeah Robins!), this one by runespoor7.

Woke up today feeling much worse than yesterday, but managed to go help finish setting up, except when I got home I felt like total crap, and now I have a fever. So no Halloween for me this year.

And in other news, I burned myself while carving my pumpkin, so I have a big blister on my arm.

Dear World,

The sore throat and headache I have better not mean I'm getting sick. I can't get sick, tomorrow's Halloween. The only time I've missed Halloween was because I was at Outdoor School one year and wasn't even in town. Let me be miserable in bed on Sunday. Hell, I'll stay all week in bed but just let me spend tomorrow night scaring the pants off of people without feeling like absolute crap. And I definitely can't miss the chocolate mayonnaise because it's freaking amazing and I only get it once or twice a year. (Yes, I said chocolate mayonnaise. It's much better than it sounds, believe me.)

Just do that for me, kay?

Sincerely,
Me.

In happier news, it's vecturist's birthday! Happy birthday!

So remember that costume I was putting together with the intention of wearing it to work? I checked with my boss the other day to see if we were still doing a Halloween thing, and we're not. He got an email from the principal saying no kids in costumes (I'm assuming it extends to the adults as well) and that if we wanted to celebrate something it had to be harvest themed. I remember being in grade school and all the kids would have a parade in and out of the classrooms in their costumes. Some of the teachers would get into it and get dressed up too.

I guess there's always next year. Or any other situation that calls for a girl Robin cosplay. I did wear the boots to work today though. It helps that my costume really just stuff I bought at various stores so I can wear pieces of it with other things. I'll wear my hair down tomorrow just to mess with the kid's heads a bit. They've been bugging me to do it lately, so it was about time I did anyway.

Didn't go to the comic book store because I was across town all morning but I'm going tomorrow. I also have a dentist appointment before that, but for once it's a regular old cleaning and nothing horrible. Except the cookie dough and wine I'm having right now is probably a bad idea.

My phone works! Dad had to reinstall iTunes, and then everything worked out from there. (Except for the part where I wanted to be in bed a few hours ago, but oh well.) I've got a phone that works! And doesn't have screen problems because it got run over! Go me!

I got a new phone! Well technically, it's Dad's hand me down phone, but when I plug it in to sync with my computer- nothing. I try my old phone, a different cable, and my iPod and none of them are connecting to the computer. They're not even charged. The weird part is, that my keyboard and mouse plug into USB ports just like the cable for the phone does, and they're working just fine. My software is all up to date, and the stupid thing worked a few days ago so I have no idea why it's stopped working now. I'm not very fond of the idea of having a phone without any of my things in it, especially when I have no idea when this is getting fixed.

Why can't things work like they're supposed to?

-New comics! Most of the things I read came in, which is good for reading, but bad for my wallet. Why can't I have a cheap hobby, like bottle cap collecting? (Though on that note, Adventure Comics totally made my day. Tim needs to stop being so emo and hang out with Kon more now that he's back. Come to think of it, so do Cassie and Bart because Kon seems to make anybody who hangs around him suddenly less angsty and more in character. There needs to be more of that.)

-I woke up early and even left on time to get to the comic book store, even pick up lunch on the way back because hey, I had time and it takes me over an hour to get home because the bus was delayed. Sigh.

-Finally got around to talking to my doctor about the whole shoulder thing. She said the injury could have been worse than I thought and I might have damaged cartilage because it's still bothering me (it actually popped again a few days ago) and I should get ahold of somebody to see if they can reopen my claim. That told me exactly nothing, but since it's related to the work related injury, she technically can't do anything about it. I love bureaucracy.

-It's fall in Oregon, which means rain. I like rain. What I don't like is being wet and cold and tired because I just had to ride home in it and I don't have any waterproof jackets. Or gloves.

So because I'm really that much of a masochist, like having evidence to support my complaining, and it showed up on ohnotheydidnt, I did actually see SGU.

For the record, I was.... unimpressed. There were a couple of unintentionally funny moments, a few big giant hams, and a lot of bad acting. (Need I mention the writing?) And the RDA, Shanks, and Tapping appearances were pretty much a joke. The longest any of them showed up was maybe five minutes.

Now I'm going to have a beer and a couple of ibuprofen and hope that it makes my headache go away.

I've been slacking on the Supernatural reactions, I know. I liked tonight's episode. Does that count as a reaction?

Have gotten tons of random plot bunnies over the past few days for no apparent reason. Various fandoms though, which is a good thing, but little to no SGA bunnies, which is depressing. November's coming up, and with it mini_nanowrimo. (I don't have the attention span or the inspiration to work on something that's 50,000 words. I have a hard enough time writing 100 words a day of whatever I want.) Hopefully I can either get more bunnies or hold onto the ones I have until November rolls around.

Today at work, we made unflavored gelatin stand up. (Fun with static electricity.) The kids thought it was awesome. (Probably because I gave them balloons.) I'd never done that before, so I'm glad that it was such a hit. There's really only so many times you can make slime before it gets old.

The extraction went fine. It only took half an hour and most of that was getting me numb. The doctor was there maybe ten minutes and it was done.

Fuck, my jaw hurts.

I spent about half the day thinking it was Saturday and wondered why my sister went to class. In my defense, I only work four days a week.

On the plus side, I got my computer back. And I made chocolate chip cookies.

According to my mother, I'm spending Saturday moving things around and clearing out whatever's left over in my old room. I don't remember volunteering for this.

Woke up at around eight, which is when my appointment was, so I was late to that. Thankfully, I'm walking distance to the dentist's office, so I wasn't too late. The dental assistant thought that the pain might be wisdom teeth and I still don't have any bottom wisdom teeth. Have two of my top ones though, but they're pretty much in and aren't causing any problems.

Turns out that the problem is that the remaining root split somehow and the whole tooth has to be removed next week. It's not my fault it happened, and they can put a bridge in later, but that doesn't make me feel any better.

Though oddly enough, the extraction is $300 less than the root canal.

But in happier news, I found $5. And there's new Supernatural tonight.

Years and years ago, back when I was like, 12, I got my first root canal. (It totally wasn't my fault, and by the time I had noticed something was wrong, it was too late to do anything else about the tooth.) And that part of my mouth has been pretty much uneventful ever since.

Until three days ago when I was eating something and it started hurting a lot for no apparent reason and has sort of kept hurting these past few days. Don't worry, I'm going to the dentist (again!) tomorrow, but ugh. I'm tired of this shit.

On the other hand, work was good despite the fact I had to ride home in the rain without a jacket. I hung out with some boys who were waiting for their dad to get them and we talked about comic book characters and I helped the older one with his homework while his younger brother looked through this copy of Showcase Presents: The Flash that I had to return to the library.

I have no idea how many people saw this on Twitter, but the #luciferiscoming thing? Doesn't mean that anything bad is happening. It just means it's Thursday.

Before I get into the actual reaction part, something happened right before the show. It's pretty much 8:59 at my house, so I turn to the CW, only it's not working. I flip through and I'm getting the channel before, and the channel after, but no CW. For whatever reason, somebody went through and programmed the channel out. It's 9 pm and I had to go and try to remember how to program it back in, which I eventually did. But I almost started freaking out. (Sounds silly, I know, but it's my favorite show, and I've been looking forward for this all week. Cut me some slack.)

( And now for the reaction part of today's post. Spoilers. )

In other news, Thursday was also comic book day due to Labor Day, so I had a bit of a fandom extravaganza.

And I'm working this evening for registration. We officially start next week. (I'm working again! Yay! I was getting tired of hanging around the house like I don't do anything.)

Greetings from Seattle!

Met up with mercury973, pavaneofstars, and rasah yesterday and today we went around to the Space Needle (it's crazy high, but the view is gorgeous), the Experience Music Project, the Sci Fi museum (which is awesome, but needs to be much bigger), and the Seattle Underground (which is also awesome, and christini_smith I think you'd like it. Really cool history tour.)

Tomorrow it's supposed to rain, and unfortunately, we're going to Bumbershoot, which is not only this big music festival, it's also pretty much entirely outside. I think I may go back to the Sci Fi museum gift shop and pick up a shirt I thought about getting today. (Of course, I got something from the Underground Tour, and the Space Needle, and the comic shop that mercury973 took me to yesterday, so it's not like I need more stuff. But what the hell, I'm on vacation.)

Back home, chilling while the numbness wears off. (It's been four hours and it's not totally gone yet. Ugh.) Other than that, I'm pretty much back to normal. I keep forgetting how fast I bounce back from things like this.

The root canal went fine, no major problems, and I don't even need a crown because the rest of the tooth was so healthy. The tooth will go dark eventually, but according to the dentist, they can go back and bleach it when that happens.

At the dentist's office, they showed me a Polaroid of me they took in 1997. (The picture was in my chart.) I was nine and had long hair, but no glasses yet. It's hard to believe I've been going to the same dentist for twelve years.

Now, the Seattle checklist:

-Laundry
-Pack
-Unload pictures from camera
-Find or reprint train notification
-New music?