October 21

In the states, today is October 20th and GLAAD created a "Spirit Day", asking people to wear purple in support of anti-bullying for Gay/Lesbian people. Even though it is already the 21st in Australia, I wore purple to show my support. I went to campus, picked up some prescriptions at the Pharmacy and then took them to the nurse at the health center so she could inject me with multiple viruses. She said she could only do 4 at a time, so she gave me Tetanus/Diphtheria and FluVax in one arm, Hep A and Typhoid in the other. ugh. I didn't get Polio, so I'll have to go back for that one. Then I went to eat and searched for flights to Cambodia on the computer. Class was pretty boring, but glad I went. Jane was sick so she sat really far away from everyone - good thing, because I don't need her flu with all the other things my immune system is trying to handle right now. Jillian called in class, having a little freak out moment, so I met up with her after class ended and had some coffee. She's been working so hard, holed up in a room for days and days, working on her papers, that she was missing some human interaction. Lina met us, too and we all kinda just stared at each other, blankly, all so tired and stressed and not really talking about much. Finally, Lina and I went home, my arm was hurting like a BITCH from the typhoid, but I stretched it a little which seemed to make it feel a bit better after a while. Lina and I went to the store and got ingredients for salsa and guacamole, then came home and she made those while I searched for cheap flights to Cambodia and Vietnam. We found some, so as soon as Jillian got home from class, we booked them! YAY! We're officially going. Lina says I don't need to get a Polio booster since I've had it as a kid. I looked it up on the internet, and confirmed that it is unnecessary to get it twice in your life! So, I'm not going back for that. Done with shots!!  After dinner, we drove up to the top of Mt. Coot-tha to see the beautiful view of the city at night, under a full moon! Nice to have a little distraction for all of us!