Nora! Our Facebook friend Abigail is moving to New Orleans!

Yes, I feel mostly better now.

Backlog galore, though.

I've been sick with killer bug, then two days of horrible migraines as I was JUST feeling better.

I sympathize with you, girl. I had 2 days of horrible migraines that were the precursor to the bug. My nose is raw from the blowing.

I've lost my wallet and phone in my cat countless times.

Ha!

I think I have a sinus infection now. My nose is stuffy, my face is puffy. I feel like crap, but not as bad as I did last week.

Someone saw me at work and said "Are you still sick?"

I went to Wal Mart after work and got what I thought was a humidifier but turns out to be a vaporizer. I'm not sure how much of an issue that is, but I'm turned it on and when I go to bed I'll set it up in the bedroom.

My schedule sucks again next week - only 4.5 hours. But I did pick up a shift tomorrow. Hopefully I won't feel worse and have to call in because that would suck for everyone.

YAY job offer, meara! And YAY finding phone, smonster!

Crossing fingers for sj and the house.

Sorry for poor, sick Bitches. Feel better! The thought of Erin losing her wallet in the cat made me giggle, though.

To answer a question from way back, for me, brain zaps are like very intense, brief moments of vertigo accompanied by what I can only describe as a “zap” in my head. It’s sort of like on a TV if you have a loose plug and the power keeps flickering. My brain kind of sputters and does a mini reboot thing every time it happens, and the vertigo feeling that accompanies it is intensely disorienting and unpleasant. You can imagine if your brain keeps doing that all day, your ability to focus or remember much of anything is very limited. The zaps get worse the longer I get away from when I missed the dose.

In addition to brain zaps, I discovered that missing a dose of Pristiq, taking it late, and then taking another one 12 hours later to get back on schedule causes INTENSE muscle cramps in my feet and calves. Holy mother of god has that been painful. I woke poor ND up at 3 in the morning screaming from the pain in my right leg Thursday night. I took a Flexoril last night because I couldn’t take the cramps in my feet anymore. Today has been better, but the spasms in my calves the night before last were so bad that my muscles feel like I worked out way too hard and pulled every muscle in my lower right leg.

So. The moral of the story is that antidepressants are really awesome when you take them correctly and will CUT YOU if you screw up.

Have you mentioned that side effect to your doctor, Pix? It sounds really worrisome. But I'm a worry wart like that.

Yay smonster for job offer and finding wallet!

Erin and Pix, health~ma.

In better application news: I do not need written recommendations, only contact details of people they can call to! Which is good, because 3 hours later, I got only 1.5 paragraphs with a bunch adjectives I desperately collected from past CouchSurfers views on me (hey, I was desperate. And apparently, I'm also intelligent, kind, warm, open minded and generous. And desperate).

And then I discovered I have to find out what my GPA is. Ah, the joys on calculating over 40 grades in a metric scale (55-100) to a new non-metric scale!
What I still need to write, and write properly, is a cover letter. Now, at this point, they will have my academic blog address, and my CV (which is kicking ass, thanks to a past Ginger-edit). They do no need a cover letter. Really. Please?

Edit: cover letter's in writing. Sometimes, you just need to listen to a certain music, and everything falls into place. Kindda like magic.

You really do need the cover letter, Shir, I'm glad you were able to get to writing it. But the cover letter is really important in terms of framing the way you want them to look at everything else.

As for the GPA, at US universities you can usually order your transcript, which handily includes your GPA.

Erin! I was wondering where you were. Sorry to hear the answer was "massively, miserably sick."

Pix, uggh. I've had some bad things happen from skipping ADs, but not quite that bad.

Shir, are you converting to an American GPA? If so, it won't be that hard.

90-100 = an "A" = 4 points
80 - 90 = a "B" = 3 points
70 - 80 = a "C" = 2 points
60 - 70 = a "D" = 1 point
below 60 = an "F" = 0 points

Now, America has an issue with grade inflation, so if Israel and/or your university grades fairly strictly, you may want to include that explanation and some context - what average grades are like at your school, in your major, etc.

Okay, it's still a little hard.

also, some partial points may be included for +/- grades.