Mecum omnes plangite
For the past several weeks, I've had progressive difficulties in sleeping. In bed at 10pm generally means asleep at 4am. It's usually three hours of laying there, annoyed that I won't fall asleep, followed by three hours of my legs and sometimes arms just tensing up on me periodically, preventing me from falling asleep. I think it may be the fact that I'm going stir-crazy, or perhaps because I've been going to the gym five days a week on a pretty extreme diet for 4 months with very little respite.
I've also become more agitated and snappy as of late, and I'm not sure why. I think I'm just tired of the same shitty routine: wake up, shower, slowly pack my gym bag, go to the gym, come home from the gym, eat the same itty bitty meals every two hours, loaf for 12 hours, go to bed, toss and turn, tense up, and finally get to sleep at 4 in the morning. December is coming very slowly, and if it progresses at this rate I'll be lucky I haven't killed myself or half of the city by the time it rolls around and I'm on my way to work.
After 18 months in Korea, I'll have somewhere between $15k and $20k in the bank, and I've decided to go back to grad school, this time to pursue my original interests in archaeology. I'm focusing on schools out west, and will be applying to 7 or 8 programs. Fingers are crossed for either UCLA or UC Boulder, in particular, but will go wherever the money happens to be. My GRE scores have lapsed, as I took the exam more than 5 years ago, so I'll be re-taking the exam in November. I picked up some prep books to reboot my brain (I've never studied for a standardized test before!) and will be working through both of them prior to my test date in late November. I'll be applying to schools in a year's time, and attending in the Fall of 2011. The one part I'm not looking forward to? Corralling former professors from abroad and getting them to write letters of recommendation on my behalf. Three letters is going to be like pulling teeth, especially when I'm asking they be sent to 7 or 8 different schools.
I've also become more agitated and snappy as of late, and I'm not sure why. I think I'm just tired of the same shitty routine: wake up, shower, slowly pack my gym bag, go to the gym, come home from the gym, eat the same itty bitty meals every two hours, loaf for 12 hours, go to bed, toss and turn, tense up, and finally get to sleep at 4 in the morning. December is coming very slowly, and if it progresses at this rate I'll be lucky I haven't killed myself or half of the city by the time it rolls around and I'm on my way to work.
After 18 months in Korea, I'll have somewhere between $15k and $20k in the bank, and I've decided to go back to grad school, this time to pursue my original interests in archaeology. I'm focusing on schools out west, and will be applying to 7 or 8 programs. Fingers are crossed for either UCLA or UC Boulder, in particular, but will go wherever the money happens to be. My GRE scores have lapsed, as I took the exam more than 5 years ago, so I'll be re-taking the exam in November. I picked up some prep books to reboot my brain (I've never studied for a standardized test before!) and will be working through both of them prior to my test date in late November. I'll be applying to schools in a year's time, and attending in the Fall of 2011. The one part I'm not looking forward to? Corralling former professors from abroad and getting them to write letters of recommendation on my behalf. Three letters is going to be like pulling teeth, especially when I'm asking they be sent to 7 or 8 different schools.