Background:
Since last week I have been having digestive issues in the morning. I think it is related to my celiac disease. I would go to the doctor, but I'm pretty sure they would tell me that they don't have any better idea than I do to the cause of my problems. So I am trying to make it through going to class in the morning and today having a meeting with my adviser.

Today:
I decided that I could not make it in to my advisers office because my digestive troubles had not settled down. So I decided since I am presenting a poster next week that it would be best to call him and discuss the issues with the poster over the phone rather than not at all. I also had a couple of other issues I needed to discuss with him. We both had a copy of the data results as I had emailed one to him. We were talking for about five minutes (of a 30 minute appointment) when I hear him say..."come in, take a seat." A second after that he says to me, "well, I'm going to have to get off the phone here in a minute." I tell him that the data all have the same set up as what we have gone through. He says "why don't I send you an email about this." This is not the only thing I needed to talk to him about. It is just one of the things. And it isn't that different than me sitting there and looking at my data and him looking at his. There was another very important topic for me to talk to him about.

WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is my time. So I'm trying to be a goo student and work around my chronic illness, and seem to get penalized for it. Someone who is there in person, (during my appointment time) gets more of his attention than I do. I guess that shows where I am on the totem pole. I know he doesn't have a problem talking on the phone as I have sat there for 30 minutes before when he has been talking to his wife on the phone (also during my appointment time.)

This makes me soooooo mad! It's not like I was enjoying being on the phone. But I was trying to be the responsible student and not just canceling my appointment, but finding a way to get the work done that needed to be done. Apparently that doesn't matter.