One Rough Week or "The Spring Break from Hell"
By SMTDante89 3 Comments
Road to be an RA Part II
Part 1 Here
Let's start with this first and get it out of the way. Just had my interview to be an RA yesterday. The questions were pretty standard (Why do you want to be an RA, strengths and weaknesses, what would you do if you were shrunk down to the size of a pencil and stuck in a blender) A few things changed on me too before I came back that I wasn't fully aware of. I had signed up for a "Mock Duty Night" (work with an RA during his rounds around his building for a few hours) and had signed up to do mine last night. However it was moved up to the day I came back from Spring Break.
Luckily I was working for one of the Resident Directors (who, coincidentally was one of the two people that were interviewing me) so they let that slide. Now I do my Mock Duty Night tonight instead. This weekend will be training for a lot of us. Which means I'll be getting up rather early on a Saturday and spending five hours doing a bunch of things.
Wikis
I've been spending a lot of time with the Wiki on here lately. I finally reached 1,000 Wiki Points about a week before my Spring Break. Then took a break and played around on the wiki a bit. It's pretty neat to make live edits to most things on pages once you hit this milestone. So I used this new found power and made a bunch of edits to pages, including what is probably my proudest wiki achievement to date. Which got me this: 
SPRING BREAK!
Yeah, Spring Break, that time when many of us get out of school/college/university for about a week. Time to relax at the beach, hang out with some friends, and just chill out and get away from the stress of your classes. I did most of this, I got to see some friends I hadn't seen in a long time (one I hadn't seen for nearly a year) and had time to kick back and relax. I picked up a few games during the break too, like Bayonetta (because I had heard it was fun... ), Enslaved and Nier (the last two mainly because of the warm reception most of the Giant Bomb community gave it, and I'm enjoying both quite well!). However, about half way through the week things went south pretty fast. Sinuses are a pain. Period. Luckily that's starting to go away. Apparently I also owe my college about $960. I think that can be taken care of, but first I would have to call someone. That's a bit of a problem, however. The phones at home have been out for almost a week now too. That makes things a little difficult when you're away from home and you really want to talk to someone at home. That makes things even more difficult when there's a medical emergency and you need an ambulance.
And here's the lowest point of Spring Break
My mom and I were eating breakfast my last Saturday home before I'm supposed to head back to college. My uncle lives downstairs in our basement (he has an apartment down there with a kitchen, bedroom and bathroom, not just some old basement) and usually takes my dog downstairs with him (I guess to keep him company)
We knew he was on his way upstairs when we heard his door shut downstairs. Next thing we heard was a thud in our kitchen. Mom called out to him and there was no answer. We both went to the kitchen as fast as we could only to see him collapsed near the kitchen door. Mom went to get my cellphone (thank God I didn't forget that at college) and was luckily able to get a call out (it's very hard to get a signal at my house) We picked my uncle up and sat him in the chair. He was able to talk, but at varying levels. Sometimes he said coherent words, other times he babbled on and we couldn't understand him.
By the time ambulances arrived though, he was able to talk fine. The paramedics think he may have had a transient ischemic attack, or a mini-stroke. But my uncle's a stubborn one though. He refused to go to the hospital because we're trying to get him new insurance (the old company we went through is no more) He is also our driver, we can't afford to add me to the insurance of our vehicle so I can't drive, and my mom has/had seizures. I was able to get back to my college though (as seen above) thanks to a good friend of mine. However, I worry a lot right now. As stated above, the phones are out back home (mom refused to take my cellphone when I offered her to keep it while I'm here) and they won't be fixed until tomorrow at the earliest. So I haven't heard anything from home for the past few days. I just hope nothing else has happened since I came back.