That's a relief

Yesterday two things happened that gave me a sense of relief. First, I have been suffering from a horrible allergic reaction to something since last Wednesday. I would get a horrible rash that was hot to the touch and painfully itchy. I went to the doctor on Monday after being kept up two nights in a row and he gave me a course of steroids but he couldn't figure out what was giving me such a widespread but intermittent reaction. The medication made me feel better for the most part, but I would still get reactions on my feet that kept me awake. Yesterday, after a nap I finally made the connection that the new sheets I got for Christmas were the culprit despite having been washed and rinsed several times already. So I switched back to the old ones and had my first full nights sleep without waking up with red itchy feet. I am bummed that the sheets were the culprit cause they were really nice and I threw away the packaging, but I am relieved to finally be feeling better.
The other thing that happened was related to my assistantship. All last semester I was having problems with my partner doing his work and other related issues. We had several meetings with my mentor to try to work it out, but nothing seemed to get through to my partner. Well my partner left for Christmas break with no definitive answer as to when he would be coming back so that we could plan a trip to do some GIS observations before the semester started. And then he missed the deadline for turning in stuff and I never heard back the entire break. Yesterday I got an email from my mentor and my partner's friends wondering if I had heard from him because he hadn't shown up to classes yet and they were concerned. I hadn't heard from him, so one of the friends went to his apartment and found it abandoned. It is a bummer to see him fail and drop out of school and out of the project because it is huge, but it is a relief to finally have a resolution to the problem. I must also admit, and this is horrible, but it is a relief to know that my inclination about him turned out to be true.