Math and the Crud

Well, it's been a little bit since I've posted. I got the crud. It's been going around the platoon, and after spending all of Saturday in the platoon office working on end of tour awards I got my dose of the Itis or the "crud." One of those wonderful gifts that's a combination of being in the military in such tight quarters enhanced by the germy, dusty nastiness of Iraqistan.

Good news, I finished my first math test today and got a 100%. I also did the four discussion questions that is part of the math class that are about math in the "real world." I got 100s on all of those too. So right now I have a sterling grade in my class. Tomorrow starts module 2, and all of the fun times attached to it.

With my cold. My fever is almost broken. Right now I've been alternating tylenol with ibprofen and then taking mucinex and amoxicillin on top of that, and I've begun to feel worlds better. Sunday was the worst. I pretty much slept all day while battling congestion and the fever and a cough. I sound worse...probably a bit of bronchitis, but feel a whole lot better. Yesterday Michael did this amazing thing with water bottles. The plastic bottles bake in the sun until you take them inside to get them to a nice cool temperature. So to help with my chills and aches he brought in a case of water bottles that were all nice and warm from the sun, wiped off the dust, and then put them all around me in bed so I could have all that warmth around my achy, feverish self. Man, it put me right to sleep, and I woke up feeling all toasty and slightly better. Michael does get some pretty cool ideas.

I'm happy because I got all of the platoon's end of tour awards finished with. Finally! That was a huge project and burden there for about a week, but now it's done, they're all printed out, and now I get some breathing room until the next project is placed on my shoulders. My nail has been growing out more. There's this significant section to it now. Plus, it's kind of funky looking, but at least there's a bit more nail to protect the bed.

I'm also writing a couple of essays for some various projects. One is for Women's Equality Day. It's some competition they're doing here on victory. The other is for a magazine. It's about the everyday life of a woman or something. Kind of a theme going on here. I thought it would be interesting to start doing some writing for some outside sources. We shall see. I guess I'm just on this kick to do something productive outside of work. Something a bit more creative. So I'll let you all know how that goes. That's all for now. TTFN.

~R.