So another year has passed…I am a year older and hopefully a bit wiser…but I think it is going to be a lot of fun being 22 – I think I already feel more mature and grown up. The department here at ND managed to come up with one of the best birthday presents possible – by officially accepting my thesis from Australia as a US Masters thesis – in essence cutting my work load here dramatically and my time in the program by a good year or two…depending on how keen I am to leave and get a job of course…? So after that piece of good news it was easy to celebrate my birthday – with many generous parcels arriving from Oz – some great gifts from Jen – and some generous friends in South Bend and Los Angeles – made for a wonderful start to my next year.
All is well here as we near the halfway mark of the semester – with a trip to LA planned for the next two weeks – we are looking forward to leaving the snow and blizzard conditions behind for a little while. Finally, over the past month I have come precariously close to being considered a hypochondriac by the staff here at the ND health department. Within two weeks I reported to them with a sore back from the accident, a suspicious skin blemish (aren’t all Australians paranoid of skin cancer?), and then a third time to find out that I had torn a muscle in the wall of my chest. Thus, after meeting the vast majority of the staff on multiple occasions, it was with no great thrill that I noticed a second suspicious blemish on my arm. Reaching across to the phone to book an appointment (all of which are free…and just in the next building from me…hence the multiple visits of course) I ran my finger over the bump…scratched it…realized it was chocolate…put the phone down…and calmly imagined the doctors reaction had I gone into their office to have my ‘suspicious blemish’ looked at. Do you think they can prescribe bathing properly? Or attempting to get all food stuffs into my mouth while eating? I guess we will never know…
Pictured: Proof that even students at a Catholic university have a sense of humor…
3 comments:
errol thats hilarious. you never could get all your food in your mouth. that would have been classic though if you had gone!!!
love kat
Happy birthday Ez! You are hilarious. I'm very jealous of your trip back to LA as well. I miss living in America. There we were feted. In London I'm just another Aussie Pest!
That's fab about your thesis as well.
Love Penny x
Happy 1st anniversary of your 21'st birthday! Glad you're still with us, you handsome man.
Also, a HUGE cheers on your thesis! I shudder to imagine going through one of those. I shudder yet again imagining doing it twice.
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