A Lesson Learned
Oh god, I actually sat down yesterday for four and a half hours to finish my paper for my Studies In African American Literature class and when I was done I was incredibly sore. Hell, I still am and I just want to curl up on my bed and watch television but I still have things to do. That's the only thing that is really messing with the overall mellow mood I'm in, which is weird enough in itself. The thing I'm most grateful for is that I don't have to worry about working on another six to eight page paper until the end of the week. I probably will do it this weekend, I managed to get one paper done the weekend before it was due this time. With this paper I'm at least going to be able to use parts from papers I've done already in that class. I'm torn between writing it on Frankenstein or on William Blake's "London." I am going to try to figure out what I'm writing it on by the end of the week so I don't spend a good amount of time deciding what I should write it on when I get home.
It doesn't really feel like I have only a week and four days left of this semester, but its reality. This week is my last full week of classes period before finals, and there's going to be a lot to do. The only real things I have to worry about are my French and my Studies In African American Literature classes, just because I need to study a bit for both. I'll be doing that off and on during the week and also this weekend so I don't get a bit behind when it comes to finishing out the semester with a bang. I can't wait until I get my grades because I want to see how well I've done. I know that there's been an improvement, I'm just not sure as to how much I've improved.
Speaking of grades, I'm definitely sure that I want to transfer to OU in the fall. I just need to wait until the rest of my tuition is paid off so that I can get my transcripts sent to Oakland and so that they can go over them. The good thing about applying for OU is that the application for admission is free. They don't have any fees attached to the application or to tuition at all. I think what compensates for that is that the rooms there for housing are just a bit pricier and tuition can be a bit sometimes as well. I care, but its not enough to steer me away from going there. Actually I have a reservation for the transfer open house in July, and I'm going to be walking around campus then. I've actually never been to a transfer open house, or even a regular open house for a college before so that should be interesting in itself. To keep my dad from getting too annoyed I think that we're going to have to stop at Starbucks a few times so that he doesn't get that bad. That wouldn't bother me that much either because I love the drinks from there. Thankfully the whole event is only three and a half hours. I can go there, take the tour and whatever else that is supposed to happen then go home and eat dinner.
I just realized that in four days it will be three months since I've actually had a migraine. That is a great feeling, and I've actually been able to put away some of the medications that I've been on recently in the back of my medicine cabinet. I don't need them right now, so what would be the reason to keep them in my purse or out at the dorm? The good thing about this as well is that I only need ibuprofen for the annoyances in life. Shoulders aching, headaches that creep up every once in a while, my left arm or my hand starting to hurt because of the rain--its just something that doesn't happen every day. Good thing for my liver too, I don't think it could handle any more of the supposed needed abuse it took with all of the medications I was on.
This week I think I'll have maybe a day and a half where I won't be completely busy. I'm going to try to at least start on chapter six of A Quincy's Heart and get either the Ed/Envy or the Cross/Allen one shots I've been working on. I have others that I am working on as well, but those are the ones that would be the closest to being finished within a few days. The others...well they would take a bit more time than that. At least I'll have something to do during the incredibly boring times during class. I probably will be taking my laptop to most of my classes anyways, so I'll have free reign when it comes to working on bits and pieces of my fanfics when I can. That's basically what its going to be until I finally am able to sit down for a while to work on them again. Even then I won't be spending ungodly amounts of time on them unless I have an idea that just won't leave me the hell alone. Then I really don't have a choice in the matter. When its something like that I tend to just sit down and write until I feel that everything would be alright if I just went and slept then picked up where I left off earlier.
I've finally realized that no matter if I don't feel like drinking caffeinated pop or tea during the day, I need to drink it or I will develop a caffeine withdrawal headache that could compete with some of the most annoying headaches out there. That is why I stocked up on iced tea and Pepsi this week. I'm definitely going to need it with how busy and undoubtedly with the small amount of stress that will come with finals week. It just tends to pile up on me at different times and I really don't notice it until I'm so tense and out of it that I realize I need a break. Good thing there's not going to be a long time that the stress of it all can pile up on me this time. I think what really makes this semester different is that I don't have to worry about studying myself into a migraine or making a migraine worse by studying. That means I'll have an easier time studying and an easier time taking tests.
This weekend was a bit freaky for my older brother. His youngest had pushed his oldest off of the bunk bed that they slept on most of the time and it was a good thing that he actually stopped my nephew from hitting his head, but something else happened. He went a broke his arm in a compound fracture and had to get surgery on it, pins and plates. The whole thing was a while to finish, and now he's going to have to be in a cast for a month. Its a good thing that it happened when he was so young because the bones heal faster, but I still don't get why the hell it happened in the first place. With kids so young, why the hell would you get a bunk bed in the first place? Che, I'll learn more about how he's doing during the week. At least nothing really bad happened during the surgery. I just want to see them again...I haven't seen them in years. Damned bitch that won't take them over to my house.
In a really odd mood a the moment, but I'm going to go finish my ramen and watch television.
-Corrupted Innocence
It doesn't really feel like I have only a week and four days left of this semester, but its reality. This week is my last full week of classes period before finals, and there's going to be a lot to do. The only real things I have to worry about are my French and my Studies In African American Literature classes, just because I need to study a bit for both. I'll be doing that off and on during the week and also this weekend so I don't get a bit behind when it comes to finishing out the semester with a bang. I can't wait until I get my grades because I want to see how well I've done. I know that there's been an improvement, I'm just not sure as to how much I've improved.
Speaking of grades, I'm definitely sure that I want to transfer to OU in the fall. I just need to wait until the rest of my tuition is paid off so that I can get my transcripts sent to Oakland and so that they can go over them. The good thing about applying for OU is that the application for admission is free. They don't have any fees attached to the application or to tuition at all. I think what compensates for that is that the rooms there for housing are just a bit pricier and tuition can be a bit sometimes as well. I care, but its not enough to steer me away from going there. Actually I have a reservation for the transfer open house in July, and I'm going to be walking around campus then. I've actually never been to a transfer open house, or even a regular open house for a college before so that should be interesting in itself. To keep my dad from getting too annoyed I think that we're going to have to stop at Starbucks a few times so that he doesn't get that bad. That wouldn't bother me that much either because I love the drinks from there. Thankfully the whole event is only three and a half hours. I can go there, take the tour and whatever else that is supposed to happen then go home and eat dinner.
I just realized that in four days it will be three months since I've actually had a migraine. That is a great feeling, and I've actually been able to put away some of the medications that I've been on recently in the back of my medicine cabinet. I don't need them right now, so what would be the reason to keep them in my purse or out at the dorm? The good thing about this as well is that I only need ibuprofen for the annoyances in life. Shoulders aching, headaches that creep up every once in a while, my left arm or my hand starting to hurt because of the rain--its just something that doesn't happen every day. Good thing for my liver too, I don't think it could handle any more of the supposed needed abuse it took with all of the medications I was on.
This week I think I'll have maybe a day and a half where I won't be completely busy. I'm going to try to at least start on chapter six of A Quincy's Heart and get either the Ed/Envy or the Cross/Allen one shots I've been working on. I have others that I am working on as well, but those are the ones that would be the closest to being finished within a few days. The others...well they would take a bit more time than that. At least I'll have something to do during the incredibly boring times during class. I probably will be taking my laptop to most of my classes anyways, so I'll have free reign when it comes to working on bits and pieces of my fanfics when I can. That's basically what its going to be until I finally am able to sit down for a while to work on them again. Even then I won't be spending ungodly amounts of time on them unless I have an idea that just won't leave me the hell alone. Then I really don't have a choice in the matter. When its something like that I tend to just sit down and write until I feel that everything would be alright if I just went and slept then picked up where I left off earlier.
I've finally realized that no matter if I don't feel like drinking caffeinated pop or tea during the day, I need to drink it or I will develop a caffeine withdrawal headache that could compete with some of the most annoying headaches out there. That is why I stocked up on iced tea and Pepsi this week. I'm definitely going to need it with how busy and undoubtedly with the small amount of stress that will come with finals week. It just tends to pile up on me at different times and I really don't notice it until I'm so tense and out of it that I realize I need a break. Good thing there's not going to be a long time that the stress of it all can pile up on me this time. I think what really makes this semester different is that I don't have to worry about studying myself into a migraine or making a migraine worse by studying. That means I'll have an easier time studying and an easier time taking tests.
This weekend was a bit freaky for my older brother. His youngest had pushed his oldest off of the bunk bed that they slept on most of the time and it was a good thing that he actually stopped my nephew from hitting his head, but something else happened. He went a broke his arm in a compound fracture and had to get surgery on it, pins and plates. The whole thing was a while to finish, and now he's going to have to be in a cast for a month. Its a good thing that it happened when he was so young because the bones heal faster, but I still don't get why the hell it happened in the first place. With kids so young, why the hell would you get a bunk bed in the first place? Che, I'll learn more about how he's doing during the week. At least nothing really bad happened during the surgery. I just want to see them again...I haven't seen them in years. Damned bitch that won't take them over to my house.
In a really odd mood a the moment, but I'm going to go finish my ramen and watch television.
-Corrupted Innocence