Here's one of the better photos I managed to capture of the eclipse:
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I always tell myself I'm not going to procrastinate with my school work, but it always seems to happen. Almost every assignment I turn in is done at the last possible minute. And I'm not seeming to make any exception this semester. Six weeks ago, when the new term started, I knew that I was going to have some work to do, but that's normal. I was given the syllabi for each of my classes, and I largely ignored all of the due dates for assignments. Maybe I shouldn't have done that.
For example, for my Popular Music class, I knew I had a paper due sometime soon, but I had no idea when, nor how long it had to be. Well, thanks to Jeff from across the hall who is in my class, I was reminded about the assignment tonight. It's due Tuesday! It's a 750-word paper critiquing a piece of music of our choice. I haven't even decided which song to write about. I'll do that tomorrow night.
Then there is my speech class. I can't even remember the last time I sat through a speech lecture. Either the instructor doesn't show up because he's sick or his car breaks down (he was absent two consecutive Mondays), or I'm sick and have to miss class. I finally showed up for the "break out" session last Wednesday, and people are already giving their first speeches. Then I find out I'm to go on Wednesday. Well, I think I'm officially screwed. I guess I'll just have to work my butt off Tuesday night, and hope to preform decent on Wednesday. At least the instructor seems like an easy grader.
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...supposed to be this boring?
It's a Saturday night, and I'm just too bored. I've left the building twice today, once for lunch, and once for dinner. I quite honestly can't remember being this bored in quite here at school in quite sometime.
Sure, the new NASCAR season kicked off this weekend, and I've been watching SPEED Channel a lot, but the same few shows live from the track and the same commentators get boring after a while. As it stands right now, tomorrow's going to be even more boring for me, even though Daytona 500 qualifying will be shown.
And it still seems that I am feeling effects from my illness earlier this week. It feels like my stomach is very unsettled, and just the wrong foods will set it off again even though I haven't been "sick" in three days. Ah, well.
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Just great... I'm awoken this morning at around 4 AM with stomach pains. I try to ignore, them, but they kept getting worse. Then at around 7 AM, I get up go to the bathroom and vomit. I figured if it was anything like the last time this happened back in the fall, I'd make one trip to the bathroom and then hop back into bed and get back to sleep.
I guess I was wrong. I get back to bed, only to be awoken many more times by stomach pains. I get up at around 8:45 and head to the bathroom, and this time, liquid comes out of my other end, if you know what I mean. I then sent off an email to my Speech teacher, because I have speech at 10 AM to explain my situation, and he gets back tom saying it's OK.
Then I finally muster enough energy to get to the infirmary here on campus. I figure, I get there at 10 AM, get checked out, they give me some medicine, and I'm out of there. Boy, was I wrong.
I get there, fill out some paper work, and notice about 10 others in the waiting room. They see my condition, and they ask me if I want to sit in the main hallway outside the waiting room in case I'd have to use the restroom. Well, I believe I used it three times in an hour.
Finally around 11 AM, I get checked out in a waiting room. A nurse checks my temperature, blood pressure and a few other things, then she brings me to a "recovery room" and tells me to lie down for a while. I use the bathroom a few more times before 1 PM, then I;m told that I need a shot to "take me out" then the nurse consults with a doctor, and and I don't get the shot, but a pill (what I guess to be a sedative). I was knocked out until at least 3:30 PM when I notice that there is a cup of Jello and Gatorade. I don't remember anyone bringing it to me, but I consume it anyway.
At this point I feel fine, so I'm just laying in bed wondering what to do. I get up and open the door of the room to see if anyone is there. After a while, around 5 PM, the nurse comes back, and gives me plastic bag full of informational papers, extra-strength Tylenol, Gatorade mix, Saltine crackers, and a can of Ginger Ale. Then she asks me if I want a ride back to the dorms, and I am still tired, so I say yes.
They call the campus police to escort me back to the my dorms. After a few minutes, a police car arrives, and I expect to ride in the front, but the officer puts me in the back seat. A minute or two later, I arrive back in the dorms, and I then realize that I don't have my cell phone. My keys and wallet are in my pocket, but my phone is nowhere to be seen. So I get on the room phone, and try to call my cell phone. I called my number, and I get a classroom. WTF? I know I dialed the right number, so I try again. Same thing I get a classroom.
Then I try dialing the Campus Police. The line is busy. I try the Infirmary, again, line's busy. So I decide I'm going to make a visit to the Infirmary. They're closed. Apparently they close at 5 PM then re-open at 7 PM. There is a bell you can ring for an emergency, but I don't loosing a cell phone is that big an emergency. So I decide to visit the Police Station. By this time, It's getting dark out, and the Police Station is on the other side of campus. So I head toward the station. I thought I knew where it was, but I end up walking around a block, and then finding it (I could've just cut through a parking lot to get there). I notice it's dark inside, but I see a light on in the back, so I bang on the door.
A lady answers, and I explain my situation, so she tells me to sit in the waiting room. She gets on the radio and calls the officer, and tells me that they've located my phone, and it's en-route to the station. Five minutes later, the officer arrives with my phone. But now I have to venture back across campus to my dorm.
Throughout the evening, I've been taking naps and eating crackers. And now I have a major headache, but I guess I'll better by tomorrow, just in time to take my Geology and Algebra exams.
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From time-to-time I've seemed to let my normal sleep cycles get out of hand. This normally happens over summer break where I normally find myself getting to sleep at 3 AM and waking up at noon. Comparing this to my high school life, the change was drastic, where I would normally head to sleep at midnight and wake up by 7 AM. But now what I'm in college, I've found that my bed time has gotten later and later and consequently I wake up later and later.
I've found that it has gotten especially bad this semester. I normally find myself going to sleep after 2 AM, and waking up at 11 AM or noon on days when I don't have any early classes. IMO, it has gotten out-of-hand. I found myself rolling out of bed at 11:30 this morning just in time to get get some lunch and make it to my 1 PM class. Even on days when I have to get out of bed at 9 AM for a 10:00 class, I find myself crawling back into bed after class for a nap.
I've decided that I'm going to go on a 12:30-8:30 AM cycle on weeknights which should give me 8 hours of sleep a night.
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