Hello.
I have a lot to get done today, so I’m going to just hop
right in. Have fun with my not so great week.
Sunday (not today) was not super fun. I ended up waking up
with a migraine, and didn’t go to church since it was not probably a smart idea
to do so with said migraine. I however, was able to get up to campus to
transfer brains into their new solutions though. I then did some institute
stuff so I could at least feel like it was a Sunday and get some spiritual
stuff in. The emotional wellness class I have was pretty awesome. It was nice
to listen to it while I was laying down and working on the sea turtle poster
that Mom gave me. I also got my institute reading done for the week, which was
nice.
Monday… was the beginning of a really rough week. The fire
alarms in our house went off around three in the morning. There wasn’t a fire,
we realized after the first time it turned off and on again. They would go on
for five or three minutes, and then turn off long enough for us to think it was
over only to start again. I ended up staying in a hotel for the rest of that
morning and the night after that since we found out that no one could come in
to repair things on Labor Day since no one was on call. It was a really big
frustrating bummer. It also left me feeling exhausted for the rest of the day
besides the naps and stuff that I took. I also had things I needed to do, like
one more round of transferring solutions with the brains, creating a
presentation and doing the reading for Tuesday’s Neuro class, and working on TA
stuff. I was, however, able to have some fun by reading through an old favorite
fanfiction that was over 500,000 words. I love it so much.
Tuesday was just kind of weird because everything was out of
sorts after the awful Monday. Our Eternal Family institute class teacher was
gone this week so we had a substitute. She was kind of awkward and very old
fashioned so we had to do group work which wasn’t fun. Sydney and Patrick (from
the Mountain View ward) finally realized I was in the same class as them and
said hi to me. I went from that to a meeting with Kezia, the WILD 6500 teacher
I have since we had to set up a one on one appointment with her to get to know
each other. She asked a lot of questions about my research area and learning style,
and it was a very intensely draining meeting, which left me exhausted before I
even ended up at Sara’s class. I presented on glia, which was easy and pretty
fun at least, but the class seemed to drag with how my energy was flagging. It
was on how signaling outside of the cell works, which I have a decent
understanding of, so it was mostly review with a little bit more detail. I came
home and crashed pretty hard after all that. I did have a “rough moment” after
getting spooked by a weird noise from upstairs (vacuum cleaner—I know, pretty
silly), but Allie was an awesome roomie and got me calmed down by making some
hot chocolate and popcorn, and sitting down with me to watch Scooby-doo.
Wednesday started really late since I was still recovering
from Tuesday. I worked on math homework for a really long time, but I just
ended up feeling pretty dumb while fumbling my way through it because of how
the questions were worded vaguely. I got a fair amount done before deciding the
rest was probably something we hadn’t learned yet. People finally showed up at
the house to fix the fire alarms while I was doing this, but then left after
deciding they didn’t know how( and they never came back… so we still have no
functioning fire alarms and it’s been a week, which yikes). After that, I set
up for my Q&A session for TAing, but three questions were asked and then we
were left alone for the full hour. We’re moving the time up next Wednesday to
the mornings because of how it turned out, and because the SI session which was
cancelled this Wednesday was supposed to be held at the same time. This is also
when I realized I messed up on a question on the quiz, which haunted me for the
rest of the week.
Thursday was… frustrating and very not good. Because of my
screw up on the wording of the one question and the fact that no one read the
announcement I sent out, there were so many emails about it. I ended up
almost in tears at one point trying to stop myself from a meltdown halfway
through the day just because I had gotten fifteen emails during an already
crummy institute class (a lot of rotating group work, ugh). I kind of shut down
a little bit after my almost crying session. After being chased by two bees
while I was just trying to eat food, I just went to the biology building to
deal with all the emails. I felt like I was going to explode from being so
upset, but I just breathed and played with the fidget cube I had on me. Neuro
class was hard to pay attention to since I was so worked up, which sucked
because we have a text next week which I’m nervous as heck about. By the time I
was going home, I was ready to cry again, which wasn’t helped when two more
bees blocked the stairs to the door, so I had to run through them and hope they
didn’t try and get in my backpack like one of the other ones from that morning.
I crashed, mostly asleep on the bed after that. I wasn’t unconscious, but it
was close enough to a nap to make everything seem a little bit better. I even
went upstairs to hang out with my roommates for a few minutes before hiding
away back downstairs.
Friday was not as bad as Thursday, but not super better—like
I mentioned previously, this week was rough. I was running on four to five
hours of sleep and trying to understand the math going on in the WILD 6500
class at 8 in the morning…. Not fun. I then came back and walked for a while
because I needed to get myself calmed down enough to sit down and plow through
the rest of the math homework. It worked, and while Philza’s stream was on in
the background, I got the homework done in a fairly decent amount of time,
which was a big relief. It, however, meant I was too mentally drained to do any
studying that day, which was fine because Mason got in town. I talked with my
roommates until I got a text from him and went to go and pick him up. We went
out to Tandoori where we talked about possible minors for him to try out if he
was going to stay in college for a little while longer and it was fun, despite
how chaotic everything was because of the football game that night. They ended
up postponing the game anyways because it started raining almost as soon as
Mason and I got back to my place. I drove him back afterwards so he could do
some studying, and then came home and crashed for a little while longer watching
youtube.
Saturday… well, it started out bad but it ended up being
really great. I was woken up by Mom panicking and asking me about how to get to
the engineering building because Mason was in the wrong area for the GRE he was
taking. So after giving instructions and not hearing from Mas after that, I
ended up trekking through campus in the rain to see if he was in testing. It
really sucked since I got distracted talking to Mom and ended up getting my shoes
and socks soaked in a puddle during the process, and we didn’t find Mas or his
car so we had to assume he was testing. I was still pretty amped and distressed
by the time that I came home, and I ended up talking with Annie who was kicked
out of her room for the moment because Abby’s in a mood again. We eventually
saw that Allie was ‘awake’ around noon and went to go bother her right as Mason
got out of the testing center. Mas picked me up to go to Firehouse Subs, where
I got bothered by ANOTHER BEE (They’re evil I swear), and we did some errands.
I was pretty snappish the entire time, which I felt bad about, but Mas is a
good sport and dropped me off at my place so I could calm down. I ended up not
doing that because I waited around for when Allie would be available to show
her a video she said we could watch that day, but she and a lot of the other
girls were busy and I didn’t want to bother them. So I stayed in the same room
(bad idea), and waited (worse idea), and barely started to breach the topic
when I saw Dad pull up since he and Mas had met up and left Mom at the hotel. I
was pretty upset at this point, and while we were setting up the cabinet downstairs,
I did have a small meltdown. It was rough, but I got through it and Dad
suggested we get out of the overstimulating heck-hole that my apartment can be,
and so we left.
By the time we got to the hotel, I was trying to push back
tears because everything kind of caught up with me. Mom gave me a hug and I
just ended up crying on her until I felt better. Took a nap too, while they
went to go get food, which helped since I hadn’t slept well at all this week.
Mom, Dad, and Mas are all amazing and life savers. We got good food, some pretty
decent fancy drinks, watched Batman Begins, and we went swimming, before going
to Karie Anne’s again and got gelati. I slept so well last night, it was
amazing. Weird dreams though, I don’t recommend combining Broadway-stage Phantom
of the Opera with Star Wars. Breakfast was good for a hotel, and we just got to
chill and hang after that until check out. Mom helped me set up Harry Potter
themed signs for my cabinet, which was awesome, and we got everything oriented before
hanging out on the porch. Now they’ve left and I’m here writing my blog after
reading through the institute stuff for this week. I’m making spaghetti tonight
with the fancy noodles Mom bought me that are all different colors—because spaghetti
makes everything better, especially with colored noodles. I still have a few
more things to do as well, so I’ll end things here.
Hopefully this next week, even with the exam, will be significantly
better than this week (even if this weekend was the best I’ve had in what feels
like a really long time). Wish me luck! Bye.
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