My Busy Day Isn't Quite so Busy

Tuesdays are usually my busiest days, but thanks to my psychology class being canceled, today hasn't really been that bad.  I woke up only slightly later than I would have if I still had to go to psychology, and after my Sims game needed to update instead of letting me play, I decided to use the extra time to do homework.  I managed to get all of my work done before it was even eleven o'clock.  It was great.

It felt kind of odd not having to go to class until one in the afternoon though, especially considering it's so dark and rainy outside that you couldn't really tell what time of day it was.  The science lab went okay, but we were working with microscopes the entire time.  This class has made me realize that I really dislike microscopes.  I never had a problem in past science classes, but in this class we do labs where we're constantly looking in microscopes for about two hours, and I've discovered that gives me a massive headache before it's over.  I could never be a scientist who has to do that on a regular basis.  Not to mention that the sketches we have to draw of what we see are downright horrible.  I can't draw anything, but how do I distinguish things that are mostly just blobs from one another?

I just finished watching an episode of Naruto, but I was zoned out for about half of it.  You'd think getting out of my first class would lead me to being more awake, but no such luck.  I'm blaming the rainy weather.  I'm going to try and watch an episode of How I Met Your Mother after this, but who knows how well I'll be able to pay attention.

I also still have my night class.  I'm hoping that will go by quickly.  Last week wasn't too bad, so let's hope for the best.  I just find it so hard to stay awake and attentive at that time of day/night.

Here Comes the Craziness

I probably shouldn't be taking time to write this because I still have homework, but I figure it's Saturday and I'll get it done eventually.  Today is just one of those days where I want to procrastinate.  It makes sense considering Twitter and Tumblr today.  How can I not be distracted from homework when it's the first day of One Direction's Take Me Home tour and everyone's going crazy?

It probably wouldn't have been too bad if there'd only been one show today.  A few hours of One Direction craziness and the rest of the day for work.  But they had to schedule two shows today.  I spent this morning following the matinee show, and now in just about an hour there's going to be another one.  And I've still managed to do nothing but a bit of reading for politics.  I still have an annotated bibliography and psychology paper to work on.  It'll be interesting to see what I actually get done.

I am really excited for this tour.  The Up All Night tour was so much fun, and I didn't even get to go.  This time I'm actually going to one of the concerts!  And the time during the concerts is some of the best times on Twitter and Tumblr for the One Direction fandom.  I'm definitely looking forward to it all.  The next nine months are going to be crazy!  But hopefully not as distracting as today (at least until May) because I do have to get some work done...

Injuries and Ice

Today's one of those days where I'm quite glad that it's Friday.  This week wasn't particularly hard or draining or anything until these past couple of days.  I think it started when the fire alarm went off in our building in the middle of the night a couple of days ago.  Needless to say, I didn't get much sleep that night, and the next day was spent being extremely worn out.

Other than that not much happened this week.  As I mentioned in my last post, I injured my finger earlier this week by scraping it against my razor.  I'm fine now, but going a couple of days barely being able to type or write anything is a little difficult when you're a college student.  Taking notes was not fun for those couple of days.

Also, when we woke up this morning everything was covered in a layer of ice.  They'd managed to clean off a few of the sidewalks, but most of them were still covered when I went to class.  I was really hoping that at least my first couple of classes would be canceled, but no such luck.  I may have slid around a bit, but at least I made it to class uninjured.  By this afternoon most of it was gone, but you still had to be careful because there were just random patches in some places.

Now, I'm going to get back to the documentary on African animals that I'm watching.  I've become obsessed with them lately and want nothing more than to go on a safari in Africa.  So I'm off to learn about jaguars!

Past Friendships

(First of all, it's been like five days since I posted.  I had every intention of posting yesterday, but apparently fate decided it would be a good idea to injure my finger.  Typing was too much of a hassle yesterday as I had to do it without using my left index finger.  It still hurts a little, but typing's much easier, so I'm finally posting.)

Sometimes I'm just sitting around thinking about the past, and I get a strong urge to contact some of the people I used to be friends with as a kid and no longer speak to.  I don't necessarily have the urge to talk to everyone I know.  There are a couple of people that I have no problem leaving their friendship in the past.  However, there are several people I used to be friends with that I miss so much that I just wish I could call them up and talk to them again.  The really strange thing is the people I miss the most are probably the ones where the friendship ended the most dramatically.

I've been lucky enough that I've never had a friendship end in a way that led to us hating each other.  If I came face-to-face with anyone I used to be friends with, it may be awkward, but we would get along fine.  Even though I have several ex-best friends that I'm no longer best friends with because of a certain situation (that I'm not going to talk about) we did end as friends and I continued to speak to them at least occasionally  at school until we graduated.

I know that these friendships ended for a reason.  And I'm extremely blessed that two of my best friends in the world have been around for more than half my life.  Katrina and I have been friends since kindergarten, and Summer and I have been friends since first grade.  The two of them have been my friends as most (actually I think all) of these other friendships have ended.  Those two mean so much to me, and I think it says a lot about our friendships that I'm still friends with them and not other past friends.

Katrina moved away in middle school, and Summer moved away after sixth grade, came back in eighth grade, and then moved away again after sophomore year of high school.  Our main forms of communication are texting.  Katrina and I especially have gone through long periods (mostly during the first few years of high school) where we hardly spoke at all because of circumstances.  Even through all of that, we've stayed friends.  When I see the two of them it's as if we were never separated, and I trust them with everything.  I'm extremely lucky to have them both as friends and for as long as I have.

Even though I've managed to keep two of my childhood friends, I still miss a few of the others.  A couple of the friends I just grew apart from, and those are the ones I have an easy time getting over.  It's the couple of friends where I made a conscious decision that I needed out of the friendship that I wish I could go back and be friends with them again.  It may sound odd. You'd think it would be the other way around.  But I sometimes wonder if there could have been a better way to work things out.  We were in middle school.  We were immature.  I think I really did need to get out of that situation at the time, but now that we're older, could the friendships work again if we tried? I think it's possible.  Of these two past friends, I became friends with one of them again in the last two years of high school, and although we're not close and haven't spoken since graduation, things were fine.  The other past friend and I have had maybe five conversations since middle school (and that's being generous) and all of them were awkward.  Does that mean I should give up or try to reconnect with her through Facebook?  Are we so different now that it wouldn't work?  Katrina, Summer, and I are entirely different people too now, but we make our friendships work.  I just don't know.  And I don't know if I should try or not.

A Much Needed Break

Today has consisted of doing basically nothing, and I'm actually extremely thankful for it.  I was so worn out yesterday after spending the day with my family and my allergies being so bad.  I took medicine early today and felt much better.  It was also an extremely light day as far as homework goes.  I did have some work to do, but it was almost nothing.  I got it done and out of the way quicker than I have all semester.  Other than a bit of homework and going to church, I had nothing to do.

So I basically spent my entire day sitting around doing nothing, which was incredibly welcome after how stressed I was last week from work and then seeing my family yesterday.  I've spent most of my day watching television shows and documentaries on my computer.  I've watched several documentaries on animals in Africa that I've found on Netflix over the past week or so, and I've loved them.  It makes me want to visit Africa so badly.

I'm sure I'll get a bunch more work tomorrow.  My Monday's usually suck just because of how much a dread Tuesdays and how busy I am on those days.  I try to make the most of it though.  Hopefully tomorrow will be good!