Friday Chicken

[beckyh2112]

Taking a leaf from Havi this week, because I feel like I need to.

The Hard Stuff

- Doctors' appointments on Monday. New doctor. Taking a look at the lump on my throat and determining that we need more tests to figure out what it is. Getting scheduled for an ultrasound for next Monday.

- Working at a new branch this week. On drive-up. Learning a whole new system for closing down in the afternoon. Learning how to manage a drive-up. Often being the only person on drive-up. The branch is understaffed with tellers, so there is usually no one who has my back because they're in the lobby.

Getting off yesterday afternoon is pretty hazy in my mind. Dark and weirdly shadowy like I know it couldn't possibly have been, because yesterday was this beautiful sunny almost-warm day.

Not sure if I can take working at that branch more if I don't get some back-up.

- Also, I'm sick. My dreams are weird when I'm sick, and this particular level of sickness makes me lurch into things and be extremely nauseous when I eat. I do not like life.

- I haven't had my period since January. And not late January, either. This is worrying me.

The Good Stuff

- Managed to read two chapters of When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World: the Rise and Fall of Islam's Greatest Dynasty while waiting for various doctors' appointments to begin. Have continued with the reading.

- Reorganized the way my bookshelves and to-be read stack functions. Now I can actually find my reference books when I need them!

- I've managed a lot of writing this week, and I've gotten a few things finished, a few things almost finished, and made significant progress on DotM3.

Comments

[floranna.livejournal.com]

About your nperiod, I have sometimes had to wait half a year between periods. But it was mainly because of my overweight. Or then it could be the other option. I don't know you nor your life so this isn't probably helpful...(at all)

[beckyh2112.livejournal.com]

I usually get a period once a month, every month. But sometimes when stress gets too bad, my body doesn't make with having periods. Which stresses me out more. My body is really stupid sometimes.

[floranna.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know. I knew I wouldn't be pregnant (I am no virgin Mary, even if virgin) it still stressed me so much that and every stomach ache was a possible period starting. It was exhausting. Then I started taking meds for it and now, completely normal.

[weirdlet.livejournal.com]

Here ya on the 'where is it. Can't possibly be spawning, where is it?!' feeling. Only happened to me once where I skipped a couple months, but that was an exciting time.

[weirdlet.livejournal.com]

*Hear

[beckyh2112.livejournal.com]

This is about the second time it's happened to me. Exciting is definitely the word I would use.

[dot-cat.livejournal.com]

Managed to read two chapters of When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World: the Rise and Fall of Islam's Greatest Dynasty while waiting for various doctors' appointments to begin. Have continued with the reading.

If half my library wasn't in storage I could probably recommend a few more good books along this range. It rather gives you a different persepective on the Muslim world, doesn't it?

[beckyh2112.livejournal.com]

It does, and I really would love more recommendations in that range. Amazon's not really helpful, and this isn't a general area of reading in the usual people I get history book recs from.

[dot-cat.livejournal.com]

More's the pity. I took several history and cultural courses related to the Islamic world back in my first round of college, and I am still amazed at the contributions the Islamic world made on so-called Western Civ. A great deal of the medical advances we enjoy had their origins in the Islamic world who had a wonderful and thoughtful approach to disease, basically while God has created the disease, God has also created the cure, so seek it out and use medicine. Rather light years ahead of so-called medicine in Europe at that time which involved "humors" and other silliness.

This book (http://www.amazon.com/Science-Medieval-Islam-Illustrated-Introduction/dp/0292781490) really tempts me.

It's great to see someone else with a bona fide curiosity in the Islamic world. :)

[beckyh2112.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that is very interesting.

*adds to wishlist because it is tempting*

I tend to be all sorts of curious about other religions. Then a recent story-setting demanded a pseudo-Islamic cultural setting. So I've been researching, and my usual result of reading about something new has come to for: I want to know more. Lots and lots more. ^_^

[dark-puck.livejournal.com]

I love your icon. <3

[safekh-aubi.livejournal.com]

I just reliesed, I think you have the same job as me. Teller/Cashier in a bank, right?

[beckyh2112.livejournal.com]

Yep! Float teller at the moment, though I am hoping they will give me a permanent branch in the not-too-distant future.

[spyridona.livejournal.com]

*strokes Bex*

It sounds like stress about the period. As for the lump, as I said, you're young and I'm going to add it's precaution. General doctors do that.

[beckyh2112.livejournal.com]

*nestles with*

It's probably stress. I just find it even more stressful when I don't have my period. And yeah, I know it's a precaution but there's still a part of me that's fretting. Fret, fret, fret.

[lunatron.livejournal.com]

I missed a period when I moved, which was pretty stressful.

[beckyh2112.livejournal.com]

Missing the period or moving?