Not a whole lot from my end. My mouth is recovering nicely from surgery. I’ve been sick but I’m on the mend. Thankfully school hasn’t been very busy lately. I have a project, a presentation, and two papers left and then I am D-O-N-E. I will be finished with doing school work and it will be glorious! I could definitely get used to not having homework. Life is movin’ along.
The first half of my spring break was spent driving around Scottsdale and looking at apartments. I think I’m going to really like living there but there’s still a ways to go before all my stuff will be settled in one of the (many) apartments we looked at. The second half of my spring break will be spent sitting on the couch with an ice pack to my chin. I had mouth surgery this morning (or "oral surgery" as my classmates like to refer to it). Skin was taken from the roof of my mouth and grafted onto my receded gums. Awesome, right? The procedure was fine–Novocaine is fabulous for that kind of thing. The ice pack helps a lot with the swelling and with some of the pain. And besides throwing up my last round of pain meds, it’s been okay today. Back to watching TV with my ice pack.
Apparently this is going to be the semester of writing papers–which feels like really annoying busy work. I wrote a paper on Friday night (yes, I stayed in on Friday night to do school work and I am so ready for these days to be over), re-wrote my research project paper on Saturday, and I am now reading 6 speech science articles (that take forever to read since it’s like I’m reading a foreign language and don’t understand most of what I read the first three times I read it) so I can write a paper for my mid-term. I’ve discovered that I’m ok with not knowing exactly how infants learn speech; I’m okay with just thinking "that’s neat" and moving on with my life. But alas, I must read a bunch of theories on infant speech perception. Guess I should stop blogging and get back to reading.
