Har har. It's so much fun. This weekend has kicked my ass. Friday I got to campus early and did some reading/scanning in the NAP library, then worked for six hours scanning microfilm (and I STILL didn't finish the roll I've been working on), then went into the lab and drafted a ship that's due next week and it's so not good. And there's a second project due next week too and I'm getting massive heebie jeebies because I'm having such a hard time grasping exactly what I need to do and how to do it.
I got home 7ish and had a short nap (believe me, it was necessary) before making dinner and being bad and reading fiction all evening.
Saturday I slept in (once again, highly necessary) then showered and went to campus and did some more frantic scanning and research for about two hours before heading home to watch the Aggies lose a heartbreaker in the last minute or two. I tried to get more work done, but despite a nap I had a hard time pulling myself together and ended up getting a pint of ice cream for dinner and watching Poirots all night (I love you Amazon Prime. So much.)
Today I got up early (well...9 am...which is early for a Sunday!), went grocery shopping, came home and watched the Vikings' game (another heartbreaking loss you can read about here: carlatheviking.blogspot.com) before getting back to work. I did take a break to read a little of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (once again, thank you Amazon Prime and your lending library...I wish I could get more than one book every two weeks though), and that eased my pain a little. Then I did my laundry and ate dinner and now I'm taking a little break before getting back to that ghastly presentation. Why am I in grad school? I sympathize thoroughly with Phil Gordon who said, "For a time I wished I'd stayed home and gotten married!"
I don't know how I'm ever going to talk for thirty minutes about Khufu's Barge and the Lisht timbers (well, I can, there's a boatload [see what I did there??] of information about them) and sound interesting and well-educated at the same time. At least I get a powerpoint, it'll help me over the worst of it...I hope.
All this is not helped by whatever sickness it is I've contracted. Faint, underlying headaches, a sore chest full of phlegm, a cough, a stuffy nose (worst in the morning), and sore ears are NOT making my life easier. I've had four of those cup o noodles so far this weekend in an attempt to soothe my sore throat and I've even put my bread in a tupperware (French toast is all I'll be able to do with it now) so that I'm not tempted to eat it and make things worse.
If it weren't so hot in my apartment and bananas didn't ripen so quickly I would've gotten more than 4, but they do ripen so quickly and I have to eat them so fast to avoid the nasty brown spots it's foolish to get more than four even if they are nice and easy on my throat. The minifridge situation is getting more acute. Every week I'm stretched to the limits of my budget to buy enough food for the week (getting stuff to eat on campus is just making it tougher too) and I never get to buy those little things I need - oregano, thyme, basil, extra olive oil, soy sauce, etc etc. Anyone feel like sharing the winning lotto numbers with me? I'd love to pay all my debts, repay my parents, and move to a decent apartment without suffering from the $340 fee to break my lease. I mean, if you have $4,000,000, $340 isn't going to bother you much, is it?
Oh well, enough stalling. Maybe I'll magically finish this sucker in half an hour so I can go to bed with a book and still get up at 7:30 and get to campus in time for the Bruker lectures...and maybe they'll finish early and I can get some drafting in with Felipe to help me - or even Nathan or Mara because they really seem to be getting the gist of of it. Lucky them!
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