Big Problems and a Bigger TV

So, it's been an...interesting week to say the least. It all started on Monday night when Allison (who had been feeling a bit under the weather for like a week and a half) and I started feeling like total absolute shit. I could barely breathe, she was alternating between fever and chills, and suffice to say, 1002A looked like a fucking sick ward. So the next day rolls around neither of us go to class due to a severe case of "I feel like I've been hit by a fucking truck-itis". The next morning we both went into the health center and wound up being treated by the same doctor in adjacent rooms. The doctor tells Allison she might have mono. She tells them that she is in so much pain that she can't swallow, and after getting short of breath, the docs give her a saline IV. They let me in to see her after they put it in, which was cool because I was really worried about her. I tried to negotiate some painkillers for her because she was crying every time she swallowed, but to no avail. They gave her tylenol, an oral steroid, and an antihistamine. Anyhoo, a few days go by and the steroids start to make a difference and I'm starting to feel better and be able to, you know, breathe. We were all relatively confident that Allison didn't have mono since it has an incubation period of 1-2 months, so she would have had to contract it before she even came out to New York. She was also starting to feel significantly better. Then Friday rolls around and Allison's phone rings.
It's mono. Fuck. So that means I've probably got it now too. I went in to get some bloodwork done, got my results today, and they came back negative. That could just mean that i have it and it's lying dormant. Either that or I have the immune system of a GOD. On the plus side, this means that I can consume alcohol (you can't if you have active mono because it fucks with your liver) for a while longer, and we all know what a happy camper alcohol makes me. Unfortunately, now Allison can't partake, which means no drunk sex for like a month. Conversely, that makes me a very UNhappy camper. Oh well, shit happens right? And she's been getting slowly but surely better, so it's nice to know that my girlfriend isn't going to, you know, die of malnutrition or anything.
On to the next part of the week though (on a much lighter note). We got a new TV in the apartment. Ryan found a craig'slist ad for a 36 inch TV in good condition for 120 (which we deftly haggled down to an even 100). So on Friday we went up to 41st st. to acquire our AWESOME purchase.
Turns out that if a TV is not a flatscreen, 36 inches at the diagonal makes the whole unit weigh like 200 fucking pounds. We had come equipped with a dolly meant for about half that and one bungie cord. I think the guy who we bought it from thought we were retarded. It barely fit in the elevator doors for the building, but we finally got it down and onto the corner. Then we all realized that we lived 27 blocks downtown plus about 6 avenues over and couldn't possibly get this thing into a subway station, much less onto the car. So I ran over to 8th ave, hailed a van taxi and brought it back. The guy took a look at our TV, told us it wouldn't go because it wouldn't fit in the trunk (never mind that it would have fit across the middle seats. This guy was a fucktard.) took my 5$ for getting me over there and left.
At this point, we were fucking panicking. Moving services were going to cost like 70-150 bucks and we had about 32$ between us. As we pondered what to do, however, an escalade limo pulled up. Apparently he was there to pick someone up, but we asked him what it would cost to get us downtown. the answer? 30$. Fuck. Yes. So we got it into the spacious trunk where it just barely fit and hoofed it downtown. 1 scary ass trip on and off the elevator and through the door of the room, however, and we had THIS
Trust me, the picture does not do it justice. But seriously, it is fucking enormous. Combine that with the fact that we have the audio running to Ryan's stereo speakers (visible in picture) and can run a laptop to it so that we can watch pirated TV shows for hours in addition to the wii, Xbox 360 and PS2 we have running through it, and it's a wonder that our room didn't collapse from the sheer volume of awesome flowing throughout it. That's about it for now I suppose. I'm gonna go sit and wish that I have a genetic immunity to mono so that I don't have to go sober for a month. Have a good day.