I've done something heinous to my back, so I went to the chiropractor yesterday morning and skipped church this morning. Rebecca has had a couple of restless nights of sleep. She falls asleep fine but then wakes up screaming inconsolably for a few minutes. We're thinking nightmares maybe. Regardless, it isn't pleasant.
Yesterday, we went on a little mini-road trip around the Southland to visit all the university counseling centers I am considering for internship. Since I didn't have to go to those in person to interview (all were phone interviews), I didn't get a taste of what the commute might be like, and it's an important factor to consider in this area. I was pleasantly surprised that CSULB wouldn't be as far to commute as I'd thought. Unfortunately, USC doesn't have a Metro stop, but it does have some kind of tram from Union Station and there is also a USC vanpool in Diamond Bar (the city next to us). So those are other options than driving to downtown L.A. myself every day. Since we were already in that neck of the woods, we drove around in south central L.A. so that Ramy could reminisce about his days in VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America...it was the forerunner of AmeriCorps). Then we drove to the nicer side of town and went to Griffith Park Observatory (you may know it from James Dean's Rebel Without a Cause. We hadn't really considered that it was the Lunar New Year, so the observatory was packed. We also didn't know that they were having a public star party last night there, but we took advantage of the free telescope viewings to check out the craters on the moon. It was a pretty clear day and the weather was gorgeous, so we all enjoyed it.
We also enjoyed dinner at Louise's Trattoria in Los Feliz and we checked out the nicer houses in Los Feliz (and saw (again) where Ramy lived during his VISTA days. On the way home, we got cupcakes, so it was a sweet ending to a nice day.
This afternoon, I finalized my rankings and certified them. So they're all in the system and ready to go for Match Day. Now I'll just try to forget about the internship match process for the next 19 days. Yeah, right.
My mom's friend Marilyn's back surgery went well last week and she is home. Hopefully this will give her much-needed pain relief. Lisa Grubbs' port placement was also successful. Lisa begins her next phase of chemo soon, so please pray she does well and has no complications to prevent her from finishing this up and getting on with her life in full health.
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