Since I have 45 minutes to kill before my next class, and if I go back to my room, I won't want to leave again, I decided that I'm going to update.  

First off, my grandma.  She's still alive, and on her own accord, which is a very good thing.  Her heart rate is back up to a normal range (70s).  She also had some bleeding in her stomach when they admitted her last week, but that stopped on its own, even before the doctor was able to put a scope down.  There was also something wrong with her feeding tube, which the doctor was able to fix.  I went to visit her every day last weekend, and she's still pretty much completely here mentally (except for the fact that at first she thought that I was one of her nieces at first).  On Sunday when I stopped by before leaving to go back to school, a therapist came in and worked with her a little bit.  She's able to move her leg and her arm (but not quite as much as her leg), and she said that she does have feeling in both.  She also sat in a chair for about 1 1/2 hours, even though after 1 hour, she said that she was getting dizzy and wanted to get back in to bed.  It took the nurses 1/2 hour to show up to help her.  Hopefully she'll be released to the skilled nursing home for rehab again, as she's been back in the hospital again for almost a week and a half now.  Everyone is hoping for this, because she really needs more therapy than can be offered at the hospital (about 20-30 minutes, 4 times a week).  Things, at least for now, seem to be looking up at least a little bit.

Sunday I came back to school.  For the first time ever, I didn't have anyone in the car with me, and I wasn't driving down in a caravan.  It was weird, and seemed a lot longer than usual.  Yesterday, we didn't have class because of MLK Jr. Day, which according to one of my friends at Xavier, is the first time that 2nd semester has ever started after the holiday.  Debbie & I pretty much spent the day with her brother.  He picked us up at about 1 and then we went to a doctor's appointment that he had.  We then went back to his house and watched a few episodes the The Animaniacs.  Personally, I think that show is all right, but nothing particularly exciting.  After 3-4 episodes, we then went to the movie theater and saw Night at the Museum.  My sister had gone to see it with some of her friends, and she said that it was hilarious and that I would like it.  She was completely right.  I do like Ben Stiller, and have liked pretty much everything that I've seen with him, so I wasn't really worried, but this was funnier than I would have thought it would be.  It was kind of weird to see Dick Van Dyke in a "bad guy" role, though.  After that, we went to dinner, and Kevin took us back to our room, and I finished the unpacking I was too lazy to do Sunday night.

Today, I pretty much did some errands and went to class.  My Gender and Diversity in Film class is a little more than I bargained for, but hopefully I'll be okay.  If not, I can just drop the class, since I don't need it for anything, and I'll st ill have enough credit hours.  My Computer Science class was pretty boring, but we did get to make paper airplanes, which was kind of fun.  My lovely 2 1/2 hour class that I get to go to at 6 is Introductory Financial Accounting.  Yippee.  I can hardly wait.

This is a cool meme!

Go to popculturemadness.com and find the Greatest Hits for the year you turned 18. (This is totally US-centric and play along only if you're okay with that.)

Select the first 50.

Bold the ones you like.
Strike out the ones you hate.
Italicize the ones you are familiar with but neither like nor hate.
Leave the ones you don't know as is.

Just a quick update to say that I passed both of my Praxis tests.  YAY!!   I got 196/200 on one, and 187/200 on the other, and I only needed 151 & 166 on the other.  My dad told me that they gave the ranges that most of the scores were in, and my score on one was so high that I was above the high average.  I'm so excited, and I'm happy, because now that's one less thing I have to worry about before student teaching, and I also don't have to pay $185 to register for the tests again.  That is all, and now it's time to go get ready to go out to breakfast with my family.

Never before has this icon been more appropriate.  Last night, after work, Debbie and I went to go see the late night movie that started at 11:00.  Since the movie was Pirates 2, it obviously didn't get out until well after 1:00.  I went to bed at about 2:00, and was supposed to be waking up at about 10:00 to get ready for work.  Supposed to being the key phrase.  Oh no.  Instead, I'm woken up by a loud, blaring noise: the fire alarm.  I'm completely disoriented, trying to figure out what the heck is going on.  Then I figure out what it is, so I'm running around my room, trying to get shoes and a coat on, and going to make sure that Debbie is up.  Not that she could really sleep through this awful noise.  So, I'm thinking that it's got to be like 4:00 in the morning.  Nope, it's 7:00.  So Debbie and I go outside, and are waiting for about 20 minutes before we're allowed back in.  We go back in, and I go to the bathroom, and take my shoes off, and the stupid thing starts going off again.  So I put my shoes back on and start going back outside when our RA comes and says that we don't have to evacuate, it's something different, and he'll come knock on our door if we have to evacuate.  So I go back in, and take my shoes off again, and there's a knock on the door.  Yep, we have to evacuate again.  So we all go back outside, and our apartment manager comes over and makes an announcement that there wasn't a fire, and that no one pulled the alarm.  I guess that there was some pipe that overheated, and it was causing the sensors to go off.  We had to evacuate the socond time because they wanted the fire dept to come back and check the pipe to make sure that it wasn't going to set the sensors off again.  By the time we were allowed back in the building a second time, Debbie & I were wide awake, and so we decided to go out for breakfast.  The strangest thing happened when I got in my car, though.  All of my preset stations were gone.  They were there yesterday when I was driving home from work, so I don't know what could have happened.  I think I'll be telling my dad about this when I go home this weekend for Fall Break.