MIA

So its been a terribly long time since I've last blogged and bunch has happened.
Thanksgiving break went more smoothly than I thought it would have. My parents loved having Greg there, my brother is actually enjoying Greg's company now and it wasn't totally weird having Greg there during the holidays...even though we don't celebrate the way he does. Oh well... he wanted to come, and therefore he had to deal with the differences. My dad went to India while I was home, so all my plans of doing a bunch of stuff with Greg in downtown Chicago didn't happen. But what did happen was that Greg talked to my parents about getting married! He said that it wouldn't happen now, (of course!), but eventually, someday in the future. My mom was thrilled and my dad was reassured. My dad did take the liberty to lecture Greg on important it is for us to finish school first (which I have!) and for us to have good jobs (which I do). Not that I'm in a hurry to get married,but my mom made the same interjections. Anyway, that was interesting. My mom later told me about it like I didn't know and that was interesting (I was away with my brother in the airport when Greg decided to do the deed).

The drive back to Des Moines was atrocious. The roads were slick as ever, there was sporadic snowing falling, cars, trucks, SUVS in the ditches, and we were driving at about 15 mph for a good portion of on I-80. Not fun at all. Luckily, Greg drove so my anxiety of driving in the dark, in snow, and inbetween trucks was lowered quite a bit. We didn't get back to the apartment until 10 pm...not so much planning done.

The week back the kids were crazy. I had to yell at one of my favorite classes and I couldn't even teach them anymore because they were so out of hand that I had them write 3 paragraph essays on how they could make their behavior better. That following Saturday I went to school to do some grading, then a Drake Basketball game that a lot of my students went to, and we ended the night going to dinner with Greg's professor.
I started feeling sick at the Drake Basketball game and by the time the game was over I was ready to lay down. Greg would not let me get out of going to dinner with him and his professor so I had to pretend I was feeling well that entire night. I had to force the food down to make it seem like I ate something. I was shivering the entire night and I couldn't wait to get home. I went home and had a horrible night....and the next three days...which leaves me to where I am right now.

I have flu like symptoms. I missed the last three days of schools because of this. I went to the doctor and she said I can't go to school until I go 24 hours without a fever. Well, my fever has gone down a little, but I still have a bit of a fever but I can't be away any longer. My class seems to be in chaos only because of yesterday because my instructions I left never got through! So now, I have to update grades that should have been done over the weekend but never got to because I was sick and plan for tomorrow's geography class. YaY!!