I was at work for 5 minutes today which gave me just enough time to tell my boss that I was not feeling so great and for her to send me home.

I felt horrible, however I know I do not have swine flu which my boss thought I could possibly have. This was at 9 a.m. and it is now at 8:57 p.m.  After lots of sleep and medicine I am actually feeling somewhat better. Which is great!

I am currently working on finishing up my portfolio for The Washington Center, my final for class and sending out an application and resume to a contact that one of PHA’s vice presidents told me to get in touch with. I am actually really excited to talk to her-I think she will be able to tell me more about public relations and communications in general in Washington, D.C., as far as expectations and skills go.

I also received a call today asking to set up an appointment for an internship interview here in Washington, D.C. I was asleep when they called and accidently answered so I was not at my best, however that just means I will have to be on top of it Monday when I show up. The interview is on Wall Street-so wish me luck!!

I took PHA News one step further today and placed all the blurbs into Constant Contact. It was easier to use then I expected-it was neat!

PHA News consumed my day yesterday and today, so I am looking forward to get more stuff done next week. I helped staff volunteer night Wednesday so I was able to leave at 4 p.m. yesterday and today-and I believe yesterday’s events were a sign to never do it again!

I left work at 3:45 p.m. to make it to the 4:03 p.m. train and fell right before I made it to the train. By the time I was picked up and my stuff, I was able to make it to the MARC train’s platform just in time to see the train pull off. Literally, I was steps away from making it.

So there I was stuck in the train station bleeding, limping and with dirty clothes. I was furious. The next MARC train was not going to be there until 4:45 .m. and since I had to make it home by 5 p.m., the later MARC train was still faster than the Metro.

So I waited and waited … and the MARC train was then 15 minutes late and on the opposite platform due to a freight train ahead of it. Grr.

5:08 p.m. That is the time I made it to Rockville. It was just in time to pass my group heading to the Nationals-Phillies game. Caylah and I were planning to head to the baseball game with a bunch of TWC students and a RA that lived in our apartment building, however that did not happen obviously.

Still Caylah had dinner ready for me (she did not have to work-MPD has emancipation day off work) and we were able to get out the door and to the game just in time.

The game was awesome! Cay is a huge Phillies fan so of course I was for the Nationals … and who’s team won? Mine.

Heck yeah. It was the first win of the season for the Nationals, ending a nasty losing streak. Heck yeah!

Tonight, Cay and I are staying at Johnny’s to head out to Nicks-a country bar. Fun, fun.

I was technically behind the wipe out of my work’s home page yesterday after all. Apparently when I went to get the remote site’s copy of the home page, the server had it as I was putting the local file’s home page copy on the remote site = thus a blank page.

In all, my superviser said that while it was both my fault and hers- it technology wasn’t … it was just a computer glitch that just so happened while we were working on our web pages.

Thank goodness it was not completely my fault!!

In other news, I caught a cold while in Arkansas and I have yet to shake it off. It is making me miserable! It was especially not helpful during class tonight where we watched the 2-hour long video, “Enron: The Smartest Men In The Room.” It was pretty interesting, but the best part of class came at the end when our professor announced that there would be no class next week followed by an outdoor class (possibly to be held on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial). I am excited!

I was the first to work on the home page today, and it was quite an ordeal. I went to upload the web version of the home page, and the page came back blank! There were no files! I was freaking out and just knew I was fired.

Turns out … it was not me!! This happened at 9:30 a.m., and our technical support said someone erased our home page at 7:55 a.m. I do not even have access until 9 a.m.-I was happy!
Thank goodness for backups. The problem was easily solved and I was able to finish updating the headlines on the home page, http://www.phassociation.org.