Srsly I don't know what was in that tea. Like antidepressants or adrenaline or something. But for the hour after my last class I felt like doing cartwheels. I was so hyper I could barely hold a conversation with my roommate because I kept talking too fast. I've calmed down a bit since and now I just feel really happy, which is a nice change from feeling like I'm being stretched way too thin, as I have for the rest of the week.
It's been hard. I got a bit behind on my reading and I haven't really been able to catch up. Fortunately my History professor is very very cool and laidback and gave us a five day extension on our assignment, so I don't have to worry about that so much, but I still had a quiz to study for and I've been doing that and my other reading all week and I've basically been in exile almost. I've only really seen other people in classes or at meals or in the house lounge while studying, which sounds like a lot, but compared to my usual social life here it's really not.
My sleeping habits have also taken a hit. I've gotten into a kind of routine of staying up too late and then getting up too late, and it's started to mess with my head a bit. Last night I couldn't get to sleep till after two, because some bitch in the room above me was like bouncing a ball against my ceiling or something and I couldn't sleep because of the noise, and then I woke up at four am in a total panic thinking all my classes were over and I'd slept through my quiz and having a near heart attack until I realised it was four in the morning, not the afternoon, and went back to sleep. Then a few hours later my alarm (which I've now begun setting to 'obnoxiously and intollerably loud') awoke me again, and again I woke with little memory of what day it was or where I was or what I was meant to be doing. I got through the morning, got through my quiz, but I felt a bit worn out and my voice was all croaky so I thought I'd better hit this cold or whatever it is before it could take hold (after 48 hours it has you). So I went to Starbucks and got a Tazo tea.
Amazing! When I first tasted it it burned my mouth and then it seemed to have a pretty bitter after-taste, so I thought maybe I wouldn't bother with it again, but halfway through my next class my nasal passage cleared and I started to feel really really good. On my way home I literally couldn't stop smiling and I kept sort of skipping. It was the weirdest sensation. I'm getting another one tonight. I'm going to have to buy a kettle too I guess, since my cold killing routine requires some seven cups of tea a day.
Anyway, it's the weekend now, and I'm really glad. I'm going to a movie tonight with my new surrogate best friend, and then I'm probably going out with my roommate and maybe a few of the other people from our floor, and then it's a long weekend for Thanksgiving which I WILL NOT WASTE. Saturday is for homework and reading and that pesky history assignment, saturday night I'm going out to dinner with a few friends, Sunday I may be going to the Aquarium with a few exchange people I haven't met yet, and Monday I'm going back home to my aunt and uncle to load up on three day's worth of food and hopefully my hair cut. I'm also planning on blogging a bit this weekend. I want to show you guys my decorated room and some of the prettiest parts of the campus, and the aquarium if I end up going.
Alright I'm out. PEACE
Hahaha that tea is dope girl. I could use some of that right now! Missing you heaps, no one to talk to and rant with without you T_T.
ReplyDeleteI sure could use some of that magic potion right now, I had to get up at 7am today ;_; Only 3 more early starts left in the semester, yayyy.
ReplyDeleteI went to the library yesterday, and got out 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep'. Some interesting themes about artificial intelligence and what defines personhood. And it raises questions about when it becomes immoral to destroy a machine. And then today I read the paper and there was a story about a robot that kicks rugby balls just as well as Andrew Mehrtens! The uprising is near! :O
Oh, and I'm really looking forward to seeing those pictures :)
ReplyDeleteClaire! I realised that I could comment on this with my AIM so hi!
ReplyDeleteI'm jealous of that tea. Starbucks needs to branch out more here.
Also, photos of the pretty campus would be awesome! UoA isn't much to look at :p Except the leaves have come back to the mini-Whomping Willows along Symonds St. by Arts/HSB/Politics.
Xo