Keep your fingers crossed!

Hello all! Please excuse my absence, it’s that time of year. By that time of year, I mean the 9 ½ months in which I put school in the middle of me and everything else- including my blog.
SO, what’s new? Well, for starters, tomorrow I hear back about the OL job. I’ve been literally praying for this job, thinking and rethinking and giving and then second-guessing interview responses, and planning my summer with the job as a main component, which even I know is foolish and likely to jynx me in the long run. Whenever it occurs to me that I might not get the job, after all the excitement, my stomach falls to my heels and I feel nauseous. I can’t recall where I left off, so I guess I’ll start with Group process day, which can not be explained without my ulcer (?). Two weeks ago, I woke up around 11 on Wednesday morning. I went and had breakfast and walked to my 12:15 class. In the middle of the first half, I started feeling this stabbing pain in my abdomen. I figured it would just go away; it didn’t. It progressed to adull sort of ache all over my abdomen, and I ended up leaving the class during our break at 1:30 and going back to my room, where, aside from a few spurts of getting up and walking around, I slept for about 21 hours. The next day, Thursday, I walked over to the health center, and they urged me to go to the hospital, concerned it was a gallstone. Dad came and picked me up, and we went to St. Peter’s to the ER, where they did blood tests and tested my urine and determined that the problem was between a gastritis in my stomach and the fact that since laying down the day before, I had become very severely dehydrated. They prescribed Nexium and lots of rest and fluids. Well, we got the Nexium, and I drank the fluids, but Friday I had to be back in New Paltz for Group Process day. (Picture, if you will, yours truly hauling a wheelie suitcase, half-walking, half-jogging, half-limping all the way across campus from the bus (which arrived at 3:!8) to Group Process day, whose sign-in ended at 3:30.)
Anyway, long story short, I was sluggish and weak during the roleplay games, the heated debates, and the short skit that was required of us. So imagine my surprise when I get a call the following Monday congratulating me on getting through to the second interview! Hooray!
The second interview went well—as good as, if not better than, the first interview. I made the points I wanted to make and had only a teeny brain fart: when they asked me what activities I was involved in on campus, I FORGOT ALL OF THEM. AHH!!!!! But I felt good about it, dressed appropriately, smiled a lot, arrived early, and made them all laugh. Despite all that, I know that the ratio of second-round interviewees to OL positions is 2:!. That’s nervewrecking. Some of the other applicants were multilingual, one of them mentioning the fact that he was actually fluent in 4 languages and near-fluent in a fifth. Others were involved in other leadership activities on campus, which always conflicted with my class schedule.
Anyway. No use dwelling over it now. I’ll have a definitive answer tomorrow afternoon. Until then, I just have to wait.

So, what else is new? It’s still cold off and on, which makes me physically ache for spring. I want to wear short sleeves and do my homework outside. I want to put my winter coats in my closet and forget about them. And it’s about time!
Classes are going okay. I have some projects coming up in Comp an in Intro to Painting that I’m really excited about; I’ll be creating a soundtrack to a short passage of a book that I love, responding to one of my new favorite movies, and painting an abstract portrait of Aileen Wuornos, who is my new favorite famous criminal. And, if you can believe it, I have 3 classes left in my Microeconomics class. Where on earth did this semester go?
Well, I guess this is more than enough for now. I’ll let you know tomorrow what the letter says!