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“Wait, why are you taking a picture of an empty parking lot, Victor?”
Because that used to be a parking lot for a private school that was basically my childhood, that’s what. ಥ~ಥ
It’s not something I’d bawl my eyes out over, actually, but I like it better when my memories have a place that’s still around. Human memory isn’t always the most reliable thing, and when it’s one mind alone with the recollection, doubt can sometimes form over whether it actually happened, or if it was actually there. At least there’s still other people around for those “Remember when…” type moments, and can actually confirm that it was real. When I’m remembering something, it can be a bit sad, at least for me, to talk of it then have to remind myself, “Oh wait, that’s not here anymore.”
Woop. Got the classes I wanted. Hopefully I don’t mess up the pre-reqs I’m taking this semester.
Yes, I noticed I only have one class on three different days of the week. No, I’m not sure why I feel kinda excited about differential equations.
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Fun Fact: How does one reset their sleep schedule?
More often than not, there’s probably a good number of people right now greeting the coming school year with a sense of dread, due in some part to surfing the interweb, catching up on the new games, or whatever it is you people have. Social lives, I think that’s what they’re called. And I’m trying to find a way out of staying up til the late late hour of 8 AM.
One option is to simply not stay up so late, and just go to sleep at increasingly earlier times, disciplining oneself to shift away from the activities the winter break had so freely invited in.
Another is to just not sleep for about 24 hours until that desired time, then your “inner clock” automatically resets itself. And you’ll have more time to bullshit around, like me! b( ‘_ ‘)
So you can either do it with a gentle week-at-the-least-long nudge or one day of violently throttling it with your caffeine-infused fists wrapped around its neck until it does what you want.
…Then again, this is less of a fun fact and more of common sense, because that second option basically sounds to me like, “Don’t sleep until you’ll really want to fucking sleep.”
So I spent the day on 2 hours of sleep, or however much I gleaned from my bed until 4 in the morning. As much as I wished for more stamina this week to stay conscious and get things done…didn’t happen.
I also noticed a handful of sleep-based facts and tidbits going around that I ended up witnessing first-hand. Like auditory hallucinations. And how part of your brain is perfectly fine with shutting down in the middle of the day because fuck you, it needs REM sleep and it’s gonna get that shit the moment you stand still, alpha waves and all. But what’s rtrs;;uiimpoortanf
Damn.
Yeah to sum it up quickly well uh I’m sleepy as hell, my weekend might be a bit more full than I expected, and I’ve got a bit of a decent fuckton of stuff to finish before it ends. Derp.
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Things from earlier today that happened in the past 36+ hours, as/after they happened:
- I had Calc II recitation, an 8:30 class. Therefore I took the 5:55 am train. I swear, I was almost inspired enough to write a poem in the two hours I had before class, but then I remembered I suck at that stuff.
- Went a bit off campus to get something for lunch, came back with my legs and left coat arm soaked. As of the moment I wrote this, still wet.
- As hard as I tried, I knocked out in my Chem II class. Woke up near the end with my arm asleep to the whisper of, “Victor, wake uuuuuup!” from whoever it was (spirit animal?) just in time to answer the iClicker questions our professor doesn’t give a damn about.
- They set up some sculptures on campus, some exhibit called “The Art of Innovation” by Daniel Henderson. They’re pretty snazzy.
- A while after my family got home, they were experimenting with mixing drinks. As I was getting progressively sleepier, they were kinda drunk. Comparing myself to them, it turns out there’s a very blurry line when it comes to telling the two apart.
- Went to my bed to take a nap before posting this, woke up 11 hours later.
- Cake.
Things that happened today:
- Calculus - First common exam is tomorrow…not exactly dreading it, but I’ve probably been studying somewhere around enough to be excited about it.
- Chem Lab - Despite our confusion, I kinda spearheaded efforts in my group to get stuff done, which was interesting(read: bunsen burners bring out the 12 year-old pyro in me). Closest thing in high school I had to a chem lab with actually doing something was burning a potato chip for its enthalpy. Now I’m very familiar with, among other things, what Sulfur Dioxide smells like. Blegh.
- A guy gave me a compact Bible. Either we now have a proactive missionary on campus or his phone number is in there, which makes ”I want you to have this.” and the smile that followed sound much more like a pick up line than it really is. I reeeeally don’t know what to do with it now.
- We have a milkshake machine thing now. It brings all the boys to the campus center. Girls too. Attempts to keep my wallet full are slowly failing.
- Thing of note: I sometimes like what I wear, thanks in part to my sister, but any effort at taking pictures of it results in me looking into the screen like an old person who doesn’t know how to/feel like taking a better picture.
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First day of the semester wasn’t so bad. Might just be me being an unrealistically optimistic college student, but I might get my homework done early.
My shirt didn’t have the plastic thingy on the right side of the collar,
so I decided to randomly rhyme and stuck in a dollar.
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Checklist of things to do before school starts:
☑ Get school supplies.
☐ Get textbooks off of amazon.
☐ Buy train pass thingy.
☐ Make sure I didn’t forget everything.
☑ Realize I did forget almost everything.
☐ Try to remember how to interact with people.
☑ Promptly fail.
☑ Realize I might’ve become a social recluse.
☑ Panic.
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What the fuck.
I just cannot give a fuck anymore about school. Just one more final tomorrow, and I’m officially free, at least in the sense of having no more classes. But it already feels like summer for me. Hesitantly, I’ve wasted away today. Not procrastinating, not how I usually procrastinate really. I’ve just been sitting around doing nothing. Trying to compensate now, at least a little by watching an MIT professor’s lectures on youtube. That he teaches clearly already puts him above the physics professors I’ve had. Of course, I’ll be studying through notes, old homework and all that stuff, but it’ll be a long shot. Eugh.
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