Putting the Pieces Back Together

Everyone usually has two parts to their lives, the professional and personal sides.  This is true for me as well although things tend to blur together to the point that it's just one big mess.  When I was young a had school and I had friends I did stuff with that was completely separate from school and had nothing to do with or even mentioned school.  As I grew older, school was the only place that I really did anything with friends.  I did something with friends outside of school maybe a handful of times between 6th and 12th grade. After I graduated, I didn't do anything with anyone.  From 2004-2006 I went to school when I was still going and that was it.  I got used to only interacting with someone when I was at school and outside of that I had my friends that I played with on the computer.  Good people that I've gotten to know over the past 7+ years.  Then again they were just on the computer, not something that got me out of the house. ...

On May 8th, 2012, I was diagnosed with strep throat.  Now in reality that is no big deal, but it does bring up a little history that I have with strep throat.  This is the first time in 17+ years that I've had strep throat.  It's something that I probably should even have to worry about, but for whatever reason I still do. When I was in third grade I had a string of getting sick.  Whether it was stomach aches, normal colds, or injuries, I managed to miss a lot of school.  I ended up missing more than 50 days of school and a lot of the time that I was at school I was in the nurses' office.  I was doing homework from the third quarter near the end of the school year, a lot of it was even thrown out and the points were placed on the bigger projects that the kids did.  This was a rather rough thing to deal with as most of the stuff that I ended up having to do, I never learned so I had to wing it as much as I could.  Thankfully, I got through everyt...