Thursday, April 5, 2007

Day 3 and Day 4

I'm typing this right now in my dark room, using what is left of my battery power. Yesterday, I woke up and ate a couple of handfuls of Life Cereal and chugged some juice before I went to class. I managed to make it through class okay, and then I realized I had a ton of homework to do. I needed an energy boost, so I spent some of my last two dollars on caffeine. I needed some caffeine to take the edge off. I got some of my research done and then it was back to my dorm room. I counted out 16 of my crackers and I paced my dorm room while using my crackers to scoop out peanut butter. I swigged some juice and then I started to study, but I ended up with a headache so I crashed instead.
I got up this morning at 7:30 and I had all the best intentions of going to my 8 AM class, but I decided I just didn't feel like it. Plus, I had the homework from last night to finish. I had some more Life Cereal and juice before getting down to work. I went to my 9:30 class and managed to make it through even if I wasn't entirely focused. After class, it was back to preparing for a presentation in my afternoon class. I spent my last dollar on some more caffeine to help me hit my focus zone so I could put my presentation together. I succeeded and I guess my presentation went okay. In the midst of working on my presentation, I had forgotten to take the time to eat some crackers and so my stomach actually started rumbling during class. I didn't mind too much because I knew that after class I was going to be enjoying a Seder meal at the Campus Christian Community.
The costs of spending my last dollars on caffeine meant that I've been using soap from the public bathrooms on campus and that I had to beg some toothpaste from someone else. I knew wasn't going to have the energy to walk down to the Dollar General yesterday to buy anything anyways. Stupid fricking pollen. At least today I'm pretty much over what I hope was the worst of this fun week in Sinus Hell. I won't be able to enjoy any caffeine tomorrow morning, but hopefully I won't need it. I guess I should in theory be pulling an all-nighter tonight to write a paper, but the prospect of attempting an all-nighter without caffeine is not giving me any incentive to work. I wouldn't mind having to go to the lobby on the third floor to work all-night because I'm used to pulling all-nighters to write papers on the third floor. For someone reason, I usually find it impossible to do homework in my room. It's not even because there's the distractions of the TV and all the other stuff in my room; it's more like I have almost no hope of hitting my focus zone if I'm trapped within my room.

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