Huh. I think today (and by today I mean yesterday) has been the best day I've had in ages. Aside from the aforementioned foray into the park this afternoon, a number of other good things have occurred. In no particular order:
It's funny how things can turn around like that... yesterday I was feeling pretty down about just about everything under the sun, but today I'm all shiney-happy girl again. Not that I'm complaining, mind you... It's a heck of a lot more pleasant on the shiney-happy side of things. : ) (<--- obvious statement of the year.)
As the title blatantly implies, I had samosas for lunch today. I headed down to the Taj Mahal during my break to pick some up. Since it was surprisingly and pleasantly warm out, I decide to go sit down in that little park by the dykes to eat, rather than just head straight back to campus. It was nice. I sat down on a rock, ate my samosas, and listened to Timber on my discman.
Not really a big deal, but somehow it felt like one of the best things I've done in a while.
Apparently, going to bed early can in fact lead to waking up early in the morning... this is news to me. And there's the end of daylight saving time on top of that. Ugh... too early.
"I don't really care how time is reckoned so long as there is some agreement about it, but I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind. I even object to the implication that I am wasting something valuable if I stay in bed after the sun has risen. As an admirer of moonlight I resent the bossy insistence of those who want to reduce my time for enjoying it. At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves." --Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947.
I had the weirdest dream last night.
Aliens were taking over Earth, and bent on destroying the human race. For some reason, they had decided to do this in a door to door fashion...
I was in my house, along with Matt, and my parents, and we could hear people outside running screaming from the aliens. When they arrived at our place, they burst in the front door... and were so charmed by the cuteness of my cat that they decided to be lenient with us. After deciding that it was about time they took a little break from the whole 'destroying the human race' thing, they started playing a board game in our living room. They started getting really into it, and were then enraged to discover that this one really important piece was missing. Then their leader told us that if we could find the missing piece - so that they could finish their game - they would spare Earth and go away.
We eventually found the game piece at the bottom of a deep (yet strangely well-lit) well underneath the house. I swam to the bottom to get it, the aliens got to finish their board game, and then they went away.
Of course, in my next dream they were coming back again... I remember my mother telling me that we shouldn't try the board game thing again, because they might remember it from last time. We were just coming up with a new plan when it was time for me to get up and go to work...
So the next time aliens are invading earth, don't look my way for helpful advice.
....
No more hot dogs and cookies before bed when drunk for me, I think.
Next time I say, "I'm going to go to bed early tonight," I probably shouldn't start playing Final Fantasy X at 11:30pm.
Duly noted.
I would be really happy to have just one week go by with no midterm. But it doesn't look like *that's* going to be happening just yet.
Another architecture midterm tomorrow, already. It feels like I just wrote the last one two weeks ago. Maybe I did; I'm not really sure. The weeks are starting to blend together into a huge, undifferentiated mass of midterms, assignments, and the USC.
Argh.
Hurray! It's my birthday!
I posted it on my blog, so now you have to wish me 'Happy Birthday'. ; )
Yeah, I bought a hot water bottle today.
I just had the best hour's sleep I've had all week. Many thanks go out to the doctors at the clinic on Earnscliffe for giving me the various perscriptions responsible, and to my dad's health plan for allowing me to actually be able to afford them. Hopefully the end is nigh. : )
So now, in spite of the A of A on which I am about to embark, I'm in a pretty good mood.
So here I am with my first post in a while. Time for general updates and whatnot.
I've been horribly sick with a cold/flu/SARS/plague/something, since Monday. I've been sucking back Benylin all week; I'm almost halfway through the bottle. Which is, honestly, probably more cough syrup than I've had in the last ten years combined. By my frequent imbibing of it, I seem to have reduced its effectiveness to a span of about fifteen minutes. And you know, that's okay. Because I'm pretty sure I can get to sleep that fast tonight.
In other news, my student loan documents have apparently arrived at student accounts. This is excellent news, and I'll be heading down tomorrow to send them off on their merry way on the last leg of the student loan obtainment journey.
Through dangers untold and through hardships unnumbered, I have submitted my first A of A assignment. Like Matt, I too suffered crazy math dreams Monday night. Mine were the closest thing I've ever had to nightmares; feverish drowning in numbers, accompanied by the sensation that 100% of my mind was grinding away at question one. When I did wake up, I was so disoriented that it actually took me a few minutes to mentally climb out of the churning numbers. If I never have a dream like that again, I'll be a happy woman.
My birthday is in a week, and I'm hoping to use it as an excuse to get out to the new Jungle Jim's which magically appeared in New Minas while I was gone. As usual, I have a number of midterms next week as well, but I should be in the clear by Thursday night, so it could happen. Either way, I'm hoping it will be a pleasant improvement on last year's birthday, which involved job interviews and fender benders. Since currently I'm already employed, and perhaps more importantly, lacking access to a vehicle, such an improvement shouldn't be too tough.
Anyhow, Ed Tech 8am tomorrow morning. Time for bed now.
