So today, I get on the floor, and apparently, I am the last one to figure out that our RA has gone “Missing”.

I go and talk to Allison, only to find out that apparently, his appendix exploded and he was taken for emergency surgery at about 3AM last night.

Wow.

Let’s just let that soak in a bit - his APPENDIX exploded, and he was taken for EMERGENCY SURGERY. Oh yeah, and the poor guy also had 102 fever last night apparently and the doctors also say that he most likely has a hernia on top of all of this. And he is extremely vulnerable to infections because of the whole appendix thing.

No kidding.

Tonight we had a meeting about this, and although it was the shortest meeting ever, I think it was the most information packed into five minutes I have ever heard in my life.

As it turns out, we are without an RA for the rest of this week, until next Monday.

Stupid me, although I didn’t take a picture of his white board on his door I should have…

On his board were all sorts of little messages before I found out about all of this RA appendix stuff saying things like “Get well soon” and “Hope you feel better”.

However, thinking of ITK 191 and how everyone and their mother was going to skip it, I wrote “Are you going to ITK 191 today? - Jill PS. I’m probably NOT”, on his board.

Let’s just say I got some major making-fun-of-Jill today in the 5-minute meeting tonight. Oh good times. ;-)

On a lighter note, my boss (Dean) took me into his office and told me something that both made me feel relieved and very happy - and also feeling as if I have set many things in motion, all at once. I’m sure it will all work out in the end. :-)

I just hope that Tyler (our RA) will be okay.

So yesterday my friend Lauren and I decide to go to Wal-Mart at 12:30PM - this is when I got my iPod. I was so happy with it I was practically jumping up and down after I bought it. I also about had a heart attack before I even got the stupid iPod in my hands, but that is another story. :-)

Then after we got back, Lauren had to go to work, and afterwards she promised that we would all go out to eat at McAlister’s with Joanette. I got back to my room, and got to play with my iPod for a few hours before I had to go and meeting up with Lauren and Joanette.

We met at McAlister’s at 6PM, and I think I had way to much to eat, because it is 5:20PM the next day and I am just starting to feel slightly hungry - ha ha! I had chili-cheese nachos and a brownie ice cream sundae. Soooo goooodddd. :-)

Afterwards we all went over to Lauren’s place and played games with another girl named Cherise, whom we met up with there. It was very fun - we played Family Feud DVD edition - a very cool game, although my teammate and I (Cherise was my teammate) lost three rounds in a row - it was still a very cool game!

I finally got back at about 1AM, and then for some reason I could not go to sleep, although near the end of our adventure Joanette kept saying how tired she was. I got back, did some homework, watched late-late night TV, and played some video games on my laptop - until about 5:30 in the MORNING.

Oops.

I went to “sleep” at about 5:30AM, and then I didn’t wake up until about 3:30PM - about two hours ago. I got my shower and Kevin and I ordered dinner from Gumby’s - a local pizza place here that specialized in this thing called “Pokey Stix”. They are very good garlic-covered breadsticks cut from the same shape as a pizza. Very good. :-)

Right now I feel kind of like “Wait, where am I again?” sort of mood right now. Still somewhat groggy from seriously messing up my sleep schedule, but my lord it felt so good. Oh wow - I just opened my curtains, and the sun is setting.

That’s how you know you are in college. ;-)

I think tonight I am probably going to go and do my laundry and then do some homework. :-)