190: Constancy

As sort of a follow-up to yesterday's post, today was thoroughly mid. I had to get up early for a training at the wind tunnel, to renew all of the officer's certifications so we can use it this year, which is super important, but did it have to be at 9 am!?

It wasn't too long, and I didn't mind it, but when it was done at like 9:40 I went right back to bed, and slept on and off until like 12:30, which was lovely.

After that I had breakfast, went to the library, and did my Italian homework, which wasn't too bad. Einsteins was out of their cinnamon rolls, which was too bad, but they gave me a strawberry strudel instead that was also pretty good.

I booked a zipcar (on-demand rental car service) to go to Target, and then... did that. University Housing will pay for my zipcar if it's for official business, which is awesome, because today I got to spend a bunch of their money on snacks (for my residents of course), and they payed for the transportation too.

After that I came home, got dinner, and talked to my mom.

I got to setting up a little basket on my door, which I filled with snacks and candy, and has already been a big hit (I give it two weeks tops before everything is gone).

I had to 3D-print the attachment, but the basket is bolted to a couple 3D-printed plates, which are themselves command-stripped to the door, which works pretty well.

I have spent most of today deaf in my right ear, because it's a bitch. I don't know why it happens, but something with my sinuses and/or earwax leads to it getting clogged pretty significantly every month or two (almost exactly a month this time), and it bothers me to no end. I have a bunch of stuff to help get rid of earwax (it melts in peroxides), but none of it really works anymore (it used to, when I had this problem my first year), so I just end up waiting for it to go away, which is a huge pain.

I don't understand what it is that's actually doing it, and it just pisses me off.

Maybe this time it'll go away when I sleep, or maybe tomorrow will be just as cooked. Last time it hung around for almost 3 weeks, and very slowly returned to normal hearing. Because it isn't that I've damaged my hearing, that's something that I'm very careful about, and I can physically feel the blockage, in the way sounds travel through my skull (chewing, for example) and the way it feels when I pop my ears, because it behaves weirdly.

I'm going to go to the health center tomorrow and ask about it.