EIGHT DAYS????????

[blackberry444]

I made an appointment with my doctor this morning, but the first one available is a week tomorrow.

I made the appointment, but I hope I shall be better by then and can cancel it. The trouble is that she's a very popular doctor and she only works 4 days a week.

I find it pointless seeing another doctor unless it's an actual emergency like when my abscess broke, because there's such a lot of background and medication to consider and in any case, I have so much faith in her, as it seems others do too.

In the meantime my ribs are aching even more, although I didn't wake coughing in the night or even this morning and neither John nor Charles heard me coughing last night.  It's a mystery!  It's so bad now that it hurts even to laugh!

I've decided to have an afternoon trying to write at home, and tomorrow I shall go to the Lit & Phil. 

Charles has his second IT class tomorrow.  I've told him that he must register his disappointment at there being no Digital Photography class and to point out that he acquired a camera specifically to take part in the advertised class.  I've also told him to ask if there isn't some way he can skip through at least the first part of the ECDL, because it's terminally boring for someone of 32 who has been using computers since he was 7 and it will probably put him off going quite soon.  The he'll never get the photography course!

It's another lovely day today but very cold indeed.  The forecast is for it to get even colder tonight and tomorrow so I think I shall leave the heating on tonight, because it takes soooo long to warm this house up if it gets very cold.  It's lovely in the summer when it's nice and cool when you come in from outside, but it's a hooter in winter!

My digestion seems to have recovered, although I still feel a little nauseated if I think about it, but I still have a vague headache.  It doesn't really seem as though it was a migraine, or anything else specific, and I don't really think it was overeating, so I'm putting it down to one of those 24 hour bugs, which no-one else seems to have caught, fortunately.

It has had the effect of putting me off anything but the plainest of food, so my lovely box of Mother's Day chocs is untouched except for the two I gave to John and Charles.

I did go to Costco yesterday even though I felt fragile, because we needed wet food for the Tootles and they were beginning to look very reproachful.  We also needed bottled water.

What I found there was a box of blackberries from some unlikely country I can't now remember and they are now sitting in the fridge waiting for me to turn them into blackberry, blackberry liqueur and rosewater muffins!

I simply must stop messing about on the Internet and get stuck into my character plotting.

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[cat63.livejournal.com]

I made an appointment with my doctor this morning, but the first one available is a week tomorrow.

That does seem like an awfully long time. I only usually have to wait a few days to see my doctor and she's only there three days a week (I think she has another surgery elsewhere).

I hope I shall be better by then and can cancel it.

I hope you'll be better by then too, but I wonder if it mightn't be a good idea to see your doc anyway so that she knows about the symptoms. She might have some tips on preventing it happening again at least.

I've told him that he must register his disappointment at there being no Digital Photography class and to point out that he acquired a camera specifically to take part in the advertised class.

Oh that's rotten. Poor Charles - he must be very disappointed.

we needed wet food for the Tootles and they were beginning to look very reproachful.

But cats always look reproachful! It's what they do :-)

I like your collective nickname for them :-)

[hooloovoo_42]

If Charles is doing an ECDL, he should have done an initial test to see what level he is at. There's absolutely no reason why he shouldn't do the tests if he already knows the subject. Tell him to ask to do a practice test.

As for the digital photography, it may be that there aren't enough takers to run the course. It's immensely irritating. I want to do a digital video editing course, but there are only about 3 other people who enrolled and the minimum we can run the course with is 9.

[blackberry44.livejournal.com]

Tell him to ask to do a practice test.

Right! I will! Thanks!

I don't think there are insufficient takers for the digital photography course, I think it's more to do with the fact that they recently moved premises rather a long way and probably their tutors won't want to go that far out, or they've been unable to get the funding or something.

As it is, either John or I will have to take Charles back and forth to the new place, to save him the bus fares out of his limited pocket-money, whereas he could walk to the old place.

[femsc.livejournal.com]

I've also told him to ask if there isn't some way he can skip through at least the first part of the ECDL, because it's terminally boring for someone of 32 who has been using computers since he was 7 and it will probably put him off going quite soon.

It's terminally boring for someone who *hasn't* been using computers that long, as well!

The problem with the ECDL is that to pass it all the modules have to be done. Charles might like to see if he can do a couple of practice tests, and if he does OK in those he should be able to do the 'real' thing. He has my sympathy though, he really does.