Thinking.
Last night I had a wonderful friend and the director of the play I'm in hang out in my room until 2 in the morning. She was being very silly and we were vaguely trying to get homework figured out. The only problem was I had done the homework at like 4 in the afternoon and needed to do different homework and had an important email to a friend I wanted to write and couldn't until this morning because this friend was in my room. Now I am very tired.
This morning.
I was awoken by a hall mate banging on another hall mate's door with all her strength screaming his name for a good ten minutes. My first thought was that she needed to calm down and not jump to the conclusion that he had hurt himself. A similar incident to this happened earlier in the term, and I'd been informed that that's what they'd been worried about. He hadn't hurt himself, but they'd been worried about it. So my thought wasn't out of no where. When the yelling had stopped I went out into the hall to get water but she was still there and looked at me, so I couldn't not address her. It turned out that her senior project is in his room and was due in 15 minutes and he was not waking up for her to get in so she could turn in her senior project. A friend of the two people in this scene went and got the head of student services and they unlocked the door and woke up the groggy guy and the scene was resolved. But why was my first thought that she thought he'd hurt himself? Is that the logical conclusion to draw from this scene, given the prior knowledge? Or is that me placing experience with other people who have hurt themselves at similar times and places on top of this experience?
And why couldn't I just tell my friend, I have other things I need to do tonight, I'll see you in class tomorrow? Heavy sigh.
This morning.
I was awoken by a hall mate banging on another hall mate's door with all her strength screaming his name for a good ten minutes. My first thought was that she needed to calm down and not jump to the conclusion that he had hurt himself. A similar incident to this happened earlier in the term, and I'd been informed that that's what they'd been worried about. He hadn't hurt himself, but they'd been worried about it. So my thought wasn't out of no where. When the yelling had stopped I went out into the hall to get water but she was still there and looked at me, so I couldn't not address her. It turned out that her senior project is in his room and was due in 15 minutes and he was not waking up for her to get in so she could turn in her senior project. A friend of the two people in this scene went and got the head of student services and they unlocked the door and woke up the groggy guy and the scene was resolved. But why was my first thought that she thought he'd hurt himself? Is that the logical conclusion to draw from this scene, given the prior knowledge? Or is that me placing experience with other people who have hurt themselves at similar times and places on top of this experience?
And why couldn't I just tell my friend, I have other things I need to do tonight, I'll see you in class tomorrow? Heavy sigh.