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February 25, 2004
i'm 22 for a moment / she feels better than ever
Ever have something that you’ve accepted will go badly go extremely well? I did today. It is a really pleasant surprise – especially how weird this day has been.
The power went off last night here at school. It was one when I got in this morning, but it messed all sorts of things up. Our turbopumps (what keeps the vacuum in our chamber) does not automatically come back on. So I couldn’t deposit my usual film because my base pressure was too high. (It has to bake out overnight.) This also happened to be a night that I was running an overnight deposition on my other chamber. After some inquiries, I found out what time the power went off (3:45 am if you are wondering) and so ended up finishing the deposition this afternoon. It is annoying as I wanted to get that chamber changed this morning as I am leaving early (5:45) to make it down to ash Wednesday service tonight. So that has been annoying. I also had carefully, then, based on the fact I was going to have to now change my sample right before I leave, to use to afm as my chamber cooled, but random dude is on it. Rarely does anyone else use the afm. I’m annoyed.
But now I have time to write. And I just want to say that my appointment this afternoon went really well. The NP at our women’s health center is really cool. We had like a 10 min conversation on my journaling habits before we got to my health issues. I had heard that she was against multicycling (ie taking the active pills for three cycles before taking an inactive week. Thereby only having a period every three months), but so I was nervous to ask her about it – even under the guise of a preventive measure (as I think my UTIs are linked to the couple of days right after my period ends). But she is totally cool with it. Though she doesn’t know if it will help my recurrent UTIs, but she agrees it is worth a try. Especially since the next step is to take a dose of antibiotic after every time. (and MUCH better than the doctor downstairs in the health center’s suggestion of just abstaining for those days. Dude, I was honest and admitted that that was impossible.) I realize that this has been just a little TMI, but I wanted to share in case, you know, you might need to know this at some point in the future. I do have to say that both ben and I now know lots about multicycling. It has been nice that ben has been so interested. (in fact, humorously so. He is all worried about the long-term effects on my health, and so I did all this research this morning and e-mailed him all this information saying it was perfectly safe. And so much more convenient. Dude. It means that I’ll only have my period 4 times a year. That rocks my world.)
So yeah – now you know lots more about me….well, at least about my health. ; )
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Posted by christina at February 25, 2004 4:44 PM