Hello everyone. This blog might be a little short and to the point, but I currently have a migraine right now and want to kind of just get this over with and update you guys on this week. Good news is that this week definitely made up for the last two in productivity and I was able to get a lot done, which helped my stress even if this week has been a bit of a downer.
Monday: Was surprisingly productive. I mean, the internet
went out halfway through my GTA meeting, but I was able to set up a hotspot so it
wasn’t a big deal, and I didn’t have any other issues. The lab itself was super
detailed, but overall, extremely boring so prep was fairly easy—even if it was
time-consuming. EvoDevo was thankfully super easy, since our discussion on Wednesday
was about Novelty and she didn’t want to influence our thoughts coming in since
it’s a pretty controversial topic in the EvoDevo field. After that, Maren and I
put some Hermitcraft on while we wrote and I suddenly got a huge burst of
inspiration for one of my own projects. This led to me writing one and a half
chapters throughout the day on my own document while listening to the RSlash
Podcast, and almost ten pages total on the three stories I’m working on with
Maren. So yeah, I count that as a pretty dang productive day. And I had that
all done before Lab even started—it was boring and the normal, though I had
some questions asked at least, which is good.
Tuesday: I had a lot more questions from that morning’s lab,
and they were good ones too, which was nice. I’m starting to feel more at ease
with the TA thing, so maybe that means things are looking up? I also found a
great Naruto fanfiction, and kind of dived into Naruto when I wasn’t writing
that day either. Neuroendo was super boring, and I think I zoned out for part
of class (oops), which is ironic considering we talked about circadian rhythms
and sleep cycles. I thought it was especially ironic considering the time
change has left my sleeping schedule on whack. The Seminar was a little bit
more interesting, though they were talking about canopy soil and pollinators
(bees, gosh darn it, I can’t escape from the stupid bee people here), but it
was cool to have two speakers instead of one this time, so that’s something. Nothing
else really happened that day except that Maren’s family got two kittens: Zephyr
and Apollo (the names fit for the first, but not the second in my opinion, but
oh well) and we got to look at cute pictures of them throughout the day and
watch the videos Anna sent us.
Wednesday: I didn’t have my meeting with the ESL student
that morning, which was a nice start. It gave me a lot of time to work my way
through three scientific articles (personal reading, EvoDevo reading, and something
for Sara), and I was able to start on my Neuroendo paper. EvoDevo class was
interesting this week. Molly had to bail for a seminar she was hosting, which
is understandable, and the discussion was really interesting. I had to use a
hotspot again when the internet was being finicky—it’s gone out a lot this
week. But once that was done, it was time to prep for the game night. We
invited Karin, Tim and Allie over(who brought store cookies—one of which was
snickerdoodles and they were lovely), and Maren let Sam know about it so he was
there. We played the game that Sam brought (it was okay but I just don’t really
like board games or many games really) and when he had to bail for a presidency
meeting, and Tim and Karin had to go and talk about wedding flowers with
someone, Allie and I just got to chill and hang out, which was nice. I’ve
missed having her around—all of them really. It was kind of just fun to talk
and stuff. We eventually started playing Among Us, and it was a lot of fun
because we’re all chaotic and Maren called the Discord crew to join us if they
were available. Allie and I both suck at being imposter and were partners on
one round which was hilarious and horribly unproductive. I even managed to play
some BotW with Tim for a bit before calling it an early night since I was still
wacked from time change.
Thursday: This was definetly the slump day of the week.
Intro to Grad Studies was frustrating because the assignment wasn’t working out
without permissible access, and our guest speaker had internet problems.
Neuroendo was still boring and was focusing on the chemistry behind stuff which
is even worse. I finished my paper right after class when I got the word that
Maren and Emily needed to go pick up another kitten for their sister. We ended
up driving to Clarkston to grab her—her name is Artemis and she is cute and
fluffy but I love her—but I was dying for the rest of the night because
allergies are awful—I blame antibiotics just a little bit. Sam came over that
night too, but I just did what homework I could without waiting on people to do
their part, which was annoying. So yeah, Thursday wasn’t the best.
Friday: Friday was by far the most productive day. I woke up
early (thanks again time change) and got all of my grading and TA duties done
before eleven in the morning. Maren and Emily left to go visit their family’s
new house with the kitty around 1:00 pm or so, and I ended up going shopping by
myself just to get some air, which helped a lot. By the time I was back, they
were packing to leave, so with one last goodbye to the adorable kitty, I had
the apartment to myself. I then proceeded to deep clean the areas that kitty
had stayed to try and rid the area of dandruff and fir, vacuumed the whole
house, did the laundry to get rid of the cat fur on towels and clothes and the
like, and then worked my way through the dishes. I’ll admit, I was kind of lost
as to what I should do when I finished my list of cleaning spree chores and homework
after that point, so I kind of just… chilled. I was so wired and wanted to do
something productive that it felt weird. I eventually went over to Karin’s
apartment to hang out with her and Tim, and we talked about Phantom of the
Opera while she made quesadillas and Tim played BotW. It was a lot of fun, and
helped past the time that would otherwise be spent in my apartment alone. I
came back in time to chat with my family—which was a lot of fun up until Mason started
talking about last names vs first name propagation and I was out. It took
forever to fall asleep that night, which sucked because that led me to today,
where I’ve only had three hours of sleep and ended up with a migraine.
So yeah, that’s been this week. I have a little bit of homework
to do that opened up this morning on Canvas, and then I’m home free for the day…
With literally no more homework to work on. I still want to do something,
but I just… ran out of things to do thanks to the productive week. Hopefully it
will all work out and I won’t go crazy. But yeah…
Talk to you all next week!
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