My week

So without paying attention, it's almost been a week since my last post. Well, not much has really happened until this weekend, so I wouldn't have had much to post anyway. Here's what I was up to:

Tuesday- Classes until 3:20. MatSci seminar 4-5. Homework 5-2 am. SLEEP!

Wednesday- Sleep in. Classes until 2. Relax the rest of the day from the intellectual beating the night before.

Thursday- Finish up homework/help others with theirs until class. Class til 3:30. Finish up homework for another class. Materials Science student barbecue. It started raining right at the beginning so I got really wet and cold. However, there was free food and good company. I stayed out there for like an hour.

Friday- TB appointment. I met with a doctor to talk about the chest xray. Everything was fine, as expected, so I have the option of getting the treatment for TB or refusing it and potentially developing TB in the future if in fact I didn't have a false positive test. The meds are free from the university, so I think I'm just gonna take the treatment. I would feel really dumb if I developed TB later in life. There's also the option of getting this other test done for $45 to be more certain, but the doctor didn't think it would be worth it, as she only recommends it for international students who've had BCG vaccines against TB. The only stipulation for the medication is that you can't drink alcohol while on it or take Tylenol, since the antibiotic is metabolized by an acetylation reaction in the liver, and alcohol and Tylenol are also liver-metabolized. Since I haven't had Tylenol in probably 5 years and I never drink, I think that won't be a problem. The treatment is for 270 days though... but I'm not going anywhere, so it shouldn't be a big deal.

Also on Friday, Rez came up to visit from NC. I met him in the afternoon and we went to a Thai restaurant for dinner after we walked around campus for a few hours so I could show him the scene. He crashed at my place for the night.

Saturday- Rez and I headed into Chicago to meet a few of his friends for lunch and some brief sightseeing. We had some awesome deep-dish, Chicago-style pizza at Gino's Pizza and went up to the John Hancock Building Observatory. However, it started raining while we were going up so it wasn't the greatest view. Still kind of cool though. Then we went to the Cubs game, where 3 of my MatSci friends were meeting us. When we got there, it was the second inning and the Cubs were losing to the Rockies 8-0. Miraculously, the Cubs came back to tie by the bottom of the 9th and it went into extra innings. An inning later it started raining at the stadium and they had to cover the field for a while. The rain let up, so they started uncovering it again, but the immediately had to put the tarp back because the rain came back. After about 30-40 minutes, it had stopped raining enough to resume the game. It went until the bottom of the 14th inning (they had a 14th inning stretch, haha), and Cubs ultimately lost 11-9. Too bad. In total it was about a 5 hour 40 minute minute game. I went out to Taco Bell with my MatSci friends after the game while Rez was with his other buddies he met up with in the city.

Today- just a laid-back day. I've been working on getting ahead in even more of my homework, and random other stuff. I got a brief call from Naman in India for about 40 seconds. He had $1 of minutes left on his cell phone and generous enough to give me a call. Basically, all I found out is that he was at the airport getting ready to fly back to NC.

So there's my update. I tried to stay succinct. The Cubs game was awesome, so I'm definitely planning to go back to a few next year when the season starts up again and the weather warm up. Tickets were only $15 on the street, so it wasn't so bad. Anyway, I hope everybody's doing well. More to come later this week....