Blargh. Am I sick or not?

I'm either having a killer menstrual cycle or I've got a touch of something with a regular one. I think I"m feeling OK then I get hit with lightheadedness and nausea. That started Thursday night. My chiro appointment was Thursday. He may have messed me up. I know the muscle in my leg caused by the SI nerve being pinched had been much better and it's worse. But then, my nerves tend to get all jangled by the killer monthly cycles I've been getting every few months. The extreme (by my standards) grumpiness of a few days ago indicates the hormones.

Still, I felt pretty well yesterday morning when my dentist had a cancellation and got me in to get my tooth fixed. It feels solid this time. He isn't charging me for the second visit since he feels responsible for the first one coming loose right away. This time, at my suggestion, he used my night guard to hold the tooth in place while the cement hardened. I left with instructions to not eat for at least an hour. Since I was hungry, I didn't want to go home and be tempted. ;o)

Since I was actually up in the morning and had the presence of mind to dress in casual business attire before the dentist appointment, I went to my sister's school district office. I took their tests last September and never got the results. When I called them a couple of weeks ago, they said they don't send out the results. They also don't give them out on the phone. You have to DRIVE there, go upstairs to Human Resources and dig through binders of test results. They list them in test date order by the last four digits of your social security number. That was an ego booster! On the Aide test, I got 90%. I noticed there was one higher score of 98% and when I looked closer it was MY score on the computer portion! Wow! The computer portion was given on a Mac that I'd only had about 20 minutes to play with before the test. I'm a PC person. Thank goodness I'd been early that day! Everyone else had scored in the mid 80's and below. 70% was passing. There's one job currently open there I could apply for. Secretary II in the Construction department. Sounds like an interesting job of coordinating things. Not great pay, but better than I'd been earning as an Aide.

Since the district office is halfway between my house and the San Jose City and our county offices, I decided to go down there to check job listings. Sure, they list the jobs online but I wanted a chance to see my dear friend yeoww and her new straight hair! Too bad I hadn't thought to bring my camera. Spur of the moment planning doesn't always work out best.

There's an IT manager job I might qualify for with the county. My mom would be relieved if I got back with the county. I'd worked at the county hospital for 11.5 years while I figured out what I really wanted to do and went to school for it. When I left the county to work in private industry, I cashed out my retirement from the PERS (public employees retirement system) because two governors in a row had been dipping into it to enhance the state budget. I didn't trust that it would be there for me. My mom was upset about that. Now that I'm older, I can see that there's more than just money from it. There's also health insurance.

The City only had one job I might remotely qualify for and there's no way I could do it. Animal Tech at the County Humane Society. Just working there would break my heart since they kill the majority of animals that end up there. As a tech, it might end up being my job to do it and there is NO WAY I could EVER kill an animal. I'd be vegetarian if I had to kill my own meat. I'm a true blue City Slicker in that regard. Vegetarians, please don't yell at me. I'm deeply conflicted on this issue. I like meat. It's part of my culture. Yes, I feel guilty when I really think about it. I do buy veggie burgers at Burger King.

Then I called yeoww and we met for a hug and a quick visit. I LOVE her hair!! I wish we could get together more often. She told me the Governator has proposed ending PERS in 2007! WHAT??? I was angry. REALLY angry. My mom lives off of that. It turns out he's just saying they'll stop enrolling new people into it then. Mom is safe. yeoww is safe. But if her kids go to work for the local or state government, they won't have it. Working for the government is odious but PERS has made it worthwhile. He want to end that. What an idiot! We visited a while longer and my anger disappeared until just now! LOL

On the way home I was thinking I was going to call finickynarcane because I'd cancelled Friday afternoon and evening with her Thursday night when the dizziness and nausea hit, but then it hit again and with cramps this time. It wasn't better at all this morning. I have no idea if I'm sick or not but I'm not going anywhere today.