Sometimes we have those days. Where we wake up and try to have a good day but it seems like everything in the universe is against us. When we go to bed the night before at a respectable hour because we have plans to wake up early and be good students.
Today was one of those days.
I went to bed at 12 last night with the intention to wake up at 7:30. Pretty good amount of sleep - very good actually for a college student. And then I couldn't actually fall asleep till 4 am. So instead of 7.5 hours, I got 3.5 which was not good. So when I got up I felt like shit. When I don't get enough sleep I feel sick to my stomach. So I went to school early with the intention to buy some coffee so that my three hour class wouldn't slay me.
The things that happened:
1. I was carrying a painting kit, book of palette paper, a painting on canvas, my bag with my laptop. I went the short way to the locker room because I felt like my arms were going to fall off and it's closer to my class that way. The door was locked. I had to climb up two flights of stairs with all my heavy gear and then climb back down another two to put my stuff in my locker, then climb back up 2 flights. Usually not a big deal, but today it felt like I had to climb mountains.
2. I went to the C-store to buy coffee with my card. There was a fairly long line but I could have waited. I really didn't mind the line, nor the other pushy students needing their caffein fix. So I'm halfway through getting my coffee, about to put in some creamer when a cashier suddenly yells out - machines are down, we're only accepting cash. Cool, I'll go to an ATM right? Wrong. The ATM for my back was not with all the other ones a cool 20 yards from the C-store. Mine was up some more stairs and I swear it looked like it was halfway across campus. Plus I was already a few minutes late to class and I didn't want to be any later. So I just gave up and figured I could go it caffeine free.
3. I get to class and almost throw up. Thankfully my teacher is an angel of mercy and let me leave early.
4. I live with my roommates in a house. We're not loud, we don't throw parties, we're not disrespectful, we take care of the house very very well. But we have a neighbor who seems to have a vendetta against all college students who rent that house. He's not even a close neighbor. He lives a block away. But he has reported us for a yard citation, which we fixed. And now he's reported us for another citation. More than 4 unrelated people living in a house. Honestly I heard that that law was in place so that brothels wouldn't pop up everywhere. But now it's one of those laws that they keep around so that we don't try to fit 20 people into a three bedroom house. It's there to prevent overcrowding which is understandable. But our house has 5 bedrooms, one of which is a master bedroom. So four people have their own room and two people share the masters. There is no overcrowding at all, so I don't really see the point in that complaint.
5. I still feel sick to my stomach and I have no money in my account to buy groceries because rent is due soon and bills just breezed through and sucked me dry.
But. As I've said in an earlier post. I'm going to try and focus on the positive because really when I look at it, those aren't major things at all. Just minor problems that annoyed me more than usual because of my lack of sleep. So here are the positive things I need to look at to counterbalance my shit day.
1. My art teacher said that I have some talent when it comes to painting and that my final project sounds interesting and that she is excited to look at it. Plus she let me out early and said that she trusts me to do what I need to do. Angel of Mercy, that woman.
2. My CRWT professor said that the ending of my short story was one of the better ones of the class and that it was a very good story he is excited to read the revision for.
3. My french teacher did a practice exam for the oral final where I have to talk in french for three minutes about a subject and she said that only thing I need to work on is agreement and my accent is tres bien.
-- M
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