full o' teh holiday cheers
Nov. 27th, 2005 04:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
transomwhiplassSo, my Thanksgiving was eventful. The family-ness came full circle by the end with everyone relatively glad to going back to where they came from. I spent the better half of yesterday cleaning neurotically after my siblings left. Honestly, a lot of the grime was just recent neglect but they didn't help any. After I scrubbed the kitchen floor to satisfaction, I felt better mentally. After waking up today after 11 hours of sleep, I felt better physically.
It was a good visit. It was awesome hanging out with my siblings. Get this - Nora did not actually seem to hate me during the whole trip. By god it was a Thanksgiving miracle! The brothers were cool too. We had a two day sleepover at my house and watched movies/hung out in general just like old times. I wowed them with my amazingly "grown-up" skills of mopping up dirty water when I found it on the floor.
Thanksgiving itself was fun, I baked cookies and my dad fried the turkey (our family tradition). Friday was less fun, we went to the play which was really cool and funny (and gave me a chance to show off what I've been doing up here) but ended less well. Everyone was frustrated at everyone else and hungry and irritated. Basically, we should have eaten before we went because it was over at 11 PM and everything was closed. Everyone had their own demands and problems, and for some reason kept turning to me and asking what we should do and where we should go. Standing in a circle outside the theater brainstorming/prioritizing demands/not actually fixing the problems all the sudden really overwhelmed me (honestly, it reminded me of exec too much) and caused a freak out on my part. But yeah, it was badness that I won't fully divulge thanks to almost assured stalking by family members here. It doesn't really matter because by breakfast the next day everything felt civil and happy again.
We are now entering into dead week here. I'm probably going to be dedicating the bulk of my energy into surviving Monday of finals week (I have 3 of 4 that day). I don't have anymore papers or assignments to worry about at this point. I just need to make sure that everything is in my head that should be. The only causing concern is that I'm in one of those funks where I don't think that I know what I know. I can't think of a better way to describe it, but it's a problem that usually tends to come and go. I just need to get into academic mode and everything will be "oh yeah!" again.
As you can tell from that paragraph, my brain is not up to par at the moment.
I woke up the slightest bit congested today. Thursday I had a itty-bitty sore throat that disappeared. I feel healthy and totally fine, but I'm worried I'm on a downslope to illness. I almost always get sick at this exact time of every term. It's stupid because I don't feel stressed out right now - I felt way more stressed a few weeks ago.
I got a spiffy armored jacket for riding my scooter and bought insurance this weekend. That was probably the one productive thing I did. Anyway, I'm feeling stupid/brink of sickness (shit shit shit) so I'm going to go take care of mental/physical sanity before just sheer unproductive laziness kicks me over the edge into retardation and phlegm (sexy, I know).
It was a good visit. It was awesome hanging out with my siblings. Get this - Nora did not actually seem to hate me during the whole trip. By god it was a Thanksgiving miracle! The brothers were cool too. We had a two day sleepover at my house and watched movies/hung out in general just like old times. I wowed them with my amazingly "grown-up" skills of mopping up dirty water when I found it on the floor.
Thanksgiving itself was fun, I baked cookies and my dad fried the turkey (our family tradition). Friday was less fun, we went to the play which was really cool and funny (and gave me a chance to show off what I've been doing up here) but ended less well. Everyone was frustrated at everyone else and hungry and irritated. Basically, we should have eaten before we went because it was over at 11 PM and everything was closed. Everyone had their own demands and problems, and for some reason kept turning to me and asking what we should do and where we should go. Standing in a circle outside the theater brainstorming/prioritizing demands/not actually fixing the problems all the sudden really overwhelmed me (honestly, it reminded me of exec too much) and caused a freak out on my part. But yeah, it was badness that I won't fully divulge thanks to almost assured stalking by family members here. It doesn't really matter because by breakfast the next day everything felt civil and happy again.
We are now entering into dead week here. I'm probably going to be dedicating the bulk of my energy into surviving Monday of finals week (I have 3 of 4 that day). I don't have anymore papers or assignments to worry about at this point. I just need to make sure that everything is in my head that should be. The only causing concern is that I'm in one of those funks where I don't think that I know what I know. I can't think of a better way to describe it, but it's a problem that usually tends to come and go. I just need to get into academic mode and everything will be "oh yeah!" again.
As you can tell from that paragraph, my brain is not up to par at the moment.
I woke up the slightest bit congested today. Thursday I had a itty-bitty sore throat that disappeared. I feel healthy and totally fine, but I'm worried I'm on a downslope to illness. I almost always get sick at this exact time of every term. It's stupid because I don't feel stressed out right now - I felt way more stressed a few weeks ago.
I got a spiffy armored jacket for riding my scooter and bought insurance this weekend. That was probably the one productive thing I did. Anyway, I'm feeling stupid/brink of sickness (shit shit shit) so I'm going to go take care of mental/physical sanity before just sheer unproductive laziness kicks me over the edge into retardation and phlegm (sexy, I know).
