I woke up this morning at around 5:30 because one of my cats got up and started meowing because he was hungry. Before I got his food, I went to the bathroom because I needed to take a major good morning piss. When I looked in the mirror, my left eye was completely pink. I freaked out a little bit because I thought maybe I had pinkeye. Fucking, EW.

I wasn't worried about the actual disease itself so much as the stigma attached to it within a group of my friends in my program. You see, over the last semester, we mercilessly made fun of one of J's students in micro lab because she got conjunctivitis... because her boyfriend jizzed in her eye. (True fucking story.) So throughout the semester, she became a running gag we had. No fucking way was I going to allow myself to be malady siblings with that sorority slut!

Thankfully, it's gone now. What I think happened was that since my cat slept in my bed last night, I probably pet him, and sometime during the course of the night I rubbed my eye. I'm not so allergic to cats that I violently sneeze when they are around, but I did notice that if I touched my eyes without washing my hands after petting a cat, I tended to have a little allergic reaction. Whew!

In other news, I received a disheartening e-mail back from the coordinator. It seems that the administration (in the form of the associate chair) is forcing her hand in the matter and making her withdraw my teaching offer, which is shitty but completely legal because I haven't signed a contract yet. However, the e-mail also said that it is the Fundamentals of Microbiology class that needs a teacher, not the Gen. Micro. class like I previously thought. The Fundamentals class is geared towards allied health and nursing majors, so it is at a lower level. And after the threat of having the offer rescinded, I relented and accepted their terms. It won't be so bad. The only thing is that allied health and nursing majors sometimes have a lot of trouble with what I consider to be simple concepts, and that would make me want to rip my hair out.

But what can I do? I need the money, and any teaching experience is something to put on my CV. Plus, the coordinator promised me first pick of classes in the fall if I want to switch out of microbiology, which is nice because I'm definitely eying the upper-division lab course for BCMB...

I never understand why people who are allergic to cats like to keep them anyway.
» randomjunk on 2009-01-09 05:40:22

Maybe the cat jizzed in your eye.
» Zanzibar on 2009-01-15 05:15:49

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