Famous Last Words: Another Week Down

This week I chose to read Jewish Fairy Tales. They were similar to other biblical stories I have read before, but it was a different perspective and that was good for me. My daughter thinks I'm hilarious, but I will do just about anything to avoid the Iliad, the Odyssey and Beowulf. So I went completely in the other direction. I think my story this week turned out better than last week's. Poor Morgana the cat has had a lot of interesting adventures these past couple of weeks. I might have to give him next week off if I can.

I also did some extra reading for my project, and that has been really fun. Some of the things I'm reading are on my kindle, and I think my husband thinks I've just been relaxing with a book in the evenings, but I'm really still working on schoolwork. I don't usually do homework in the evenings unless I have to, but there's a lot I want to explore and it's been interesting enough for me to allow it to cross into my family and relaxation time. Arsene Lupin is a pretty fun guy, so I don't mind taking him to the couch with me at night.

My other classes went well this week, too. I was really nervous about the response paper I wrote on the reading we did for my personality class, but she told me it was beautiful. I was afraid I put too much of myself into it, because I tend to do so, as you can probably already tell. I'm having the semester of teacher's asking for my thoughts rather than just scholarly writing, so it's going to get interesting as I get more comfortable. In my capstone this week we decided on where we will serve our internship, and I went with the veteran's center. It scares me a little and is pretty outside the box for me, but everything about it felt more right. The other place would have been children and teens and I have a lot more experience with those groups already. I expected the lab I'll be working at to meet, but I haven't heard anything. It's not that unusual for it to take a little time to get things going, but since it counts as a class I need to make sure everything is alright with it. I need to apply for graduation before the 15th of this month, so I will probably do that next week whether we've started in the lab or not.

(Photo of Mario from my personal collection)

Yesterday afternoon we had to take Mario to the vet to have his thyroid checked. He's 18 years old and has hyperthyroidism, chronic kidney disease and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, which is an enlarged chamber of the heart. He's on medication for the thyroid and the heart issues. He hasn't had his thyroid levels checked since he started the heart medicine in April, and it's absolutely perfect! He's been grumpy lately so we thought maybe his meds needed an adjustment. His kidneys are a little worse, he's slightly anemic, and he's lost more weight, but those are things that are going to continue to progress as he ages. The vet says he's allowed to eat his special kidney friendly tuna as much as he wants, and we're getting some probiotics to sprinkle in his food to make his tummy feel better. Most of his behavior is surprisingly normal considering his health problems, and he seems happy most of the time (except when he's grumpy and yelling at me). So all is good with him for now, and that makes me feel better.

Tomorrow I'm taking homework to a family gathering. I need to stay caught up and/or ahead, and I need to do some more studying for my GRE. I was planning to use the long weekend to do those things, and then my husband accepted an invitation. So while the kids swim in the pool, I will be doing as much homework as I comfortably can there. I guess we'll see how it works out, I can't always concentrate with that much going on around me.