Sick Bunhead here. Late Saturday night (after an exposure to stomach virus earlier in the week) into Sunday morning brought the worst stomach flu I have ever experienced. It was a little maddening because I took such good care of myself and lots of great medicine in an effort to avoid it. Uggg. This of course spoiled my plans of going into the city Sunday afternoon. Luckily I was able to sleep a lot on Sunday, and thankfully today I feel much better, just have been battling a headache and leftover aches, etc. And sadly I am missing the first two days of the 2nd semester. I had a perfect record 1st semester, even with getting genuinely sick, but to my chagrin, it isn't meant to be this time. I'll just have to work all the harder to make up for it!!
So... trying not to feel guilty here about Wednesday now being my first day at school. I could be going back today but am afraid what might happen if I push things too hard. I still am not 100%, so tomorrow (Tuesday), I'll go back in and have sufficient time to get settled and prepared for the rest of the week. Who knew of the unexpected potential drama that can ensue? Well, that's my little update for the first week "back". Still recuperating (from what one can only wonder was e. coli or a strain similarly as bad!) in the comforts of home - and hope to be dancing before I know it!
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Monday, January 9, 2012
Monday, January 17, 2011
Don't like Mondays...
("Tell me why
I don’t like Mondays")
Today was a hard day! I'll admit it. After the weekend... I spent Saturday plodding through the day somehow though I felt exhausted!, and Sunday afternoon I took a nap, knowing that I would have to get up super early Monday morning. Luckily I checked train schedules, as the only available trains this morning were 5:18 and 6:51! My only choice therefore, to make it to an 8:30am class was the 5:18. I went to bed early after a bit of Golden Globes (not that great) and got up at 4:10am. Yes, you heard me right. Ha ha. The only bad thing was that I was subconsciously paranoid about missing the alarm or something, so every hour after midnight I woke up like someone had just awakened me to check my clock. I was getting annoyed at my neurotic subconscious, telling myself that "yes, the alarm will get you up!". But I ended up waking at 1, 2, and 3:10, and then for my alarm an hour after that. I'm pretty sure all were exactly the same amount of time apart - straight out of dreams, too. Very strange... Being a light sleeper can indeed be the bane of my existence.
But the train ride was good - very full. And then on the opposite end, New York was absolutely deserted this morning with the holiday! It was unusual to see - almost too quiet.
I'm only starting to feel sleepy now, and the day is hardly over. But enough about that...it just felt generally harder for me to push myself in class, though I was able to, when I was feeling behind and a bit blah. Our whole class, surprisingly, had a universal Monday reaction and we had a very slow morning class working on some core basics and fixing problems and things like that. The teacher we had is amazingly good at recognizing and seeing that and then proceeding to fix it! So it was a slow morning but good, though the afternoon seemed longer. Hopefully I will be able to pull myself out of this "slump" very soon. No fun to feel sluggish.
Well, that's all for now, more to come soon!
I don’t like Mondays")
Today was a hard day! I'll admit it. After the weekend... I spent Saturday plodding through the day somehow though I felt exhausted!, and Sunday afternoon I took a nap, knowing that I would have to get up super early Monday morning. Luckily I checked train schedules, as the only available trains this morning were 5:18 and 6:51! My only choice therefore, to make it to an 8:30am class was the 5:18. I went to bed early after a bit of Golden Globes (not that great) and got up at 4:10am. Yes, you heard me right. Ha ha. The only bad thing was that I was subconsciously paranoid about missing the alarm or something, so every hour after midnight I woke up like someone had just awakened me to check my clock. I was getting annoyed at my neurotic subconscious, telling myself that "yes, the alarm will get you up!". But I ended up waking at 1, 2, and 3:10, and then for my alarm an hour after that. I'm pretty sure all were exactly the same amount of time apart - straight out of dreams, too. Very strange... Being a light sleeper can indeed be the bane of my existence.
But the train ride was good - very full. And then on the opposite end, New York was absolutely deserted this morning with the holiday! It was unusual to see - almost too quiet.
I'm only starting to feel sleepy now, and the day is hardly over. But enough about that...it just felt generally harder for me to push myself in class, though I was able to, when I was feeling behind and a bit blah. Our whole class, surprisingly, had a universal Monday reaction and we had a very slow morning class working on some core basics and fixing problems and things like that. The teacher we had is amazingly good at recognizing and seeing that and then proceeding to fix it! So it was a slow morning but good, though the afternoon seemed longer. Hopefully I will be able to pull myself out of this "slump" very soon. No fun to feel sluggish.
Well, that's all for now, more to come soon!
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Sleep sleep everywhere and not a chance to wink
(^ Bad pun that somehow popped its way into my head)
(Warning: rather negative post)
It's been a ridiculously long time since I've gotten a chance to post... it's a very tired bunhead typing tonight. I've had a busy past couple of weeks - particularly this week - with an accompanying particularly insane personal schedule. My schedule has become set, in that I awake at 5:30 every morning - and get home late. The morning commute is easy and painless, but in the evenings, all bets are off, usually referring to the bus. There was one day that I waited for a bus for a full hour... often it can be anywhere from 30 to 45 minutes - rarely is it 10 or 15 minutes (I'm lucky if it is!). Because I get home late - and still have to shower, eat and get ready for the morning and next day - I have been getting to bed very late as well. On Wednesday and Thursday night it was late - Thursday I got to bed at midnight! I skipped doing stuff to get to bed at that time - like brushing teeth even, after doing the math as to how much sleep I would be getting (about 51/2). You know you're not getting enough sleep when you wake up and your hair is still damp from the shower you took at 11:30 - or when you take your hair out of a bun after a full day of classes -- and it's still damp-ish!!) Yesterday was my birthday - a good day, but a bit surreal, because it didn't feel like my birthday. I did get 3 cakes total, though - one from my classmates, one from my host family, and one from my family! So that was nice.
I'm not a sleep obsessed person, but I'm really hurting on sleep. Sleep deprivation is not a pleasant feeling, and I don't let myself sleep on public transportation - though truly almost everyone else does. My solution is to not sit on the train in the morning - otherwise I will zonk. One of the trains in the evening can be difficult too. I'm happy to make the sacrifice though, even if it can be hard...
Hopefully more to come soon on more dancing stuff... but for now (yawn), time to try to get ahead on sleep for the week ahead!
(Warning: rather negative post)
It's been a ridiculously long time since I've gotten a chance to post... it's a very tired bunhead typing tonight. I've had a busy past couple of weeks - particularly this week - with an accompanying particularly insane personal schedule. My schedule has become set, in that I awake at 5:30 every morning - and get home late. The morning commute is easy and painless, but in the evenings, all bets are off, usually referring to the bus. There was one day that I waited for a bus for a full hour... often it can be anywhere from 30 to 45 minutes - rarely is it 10 or 15 minutes (I'm lucky if it is!). Because I get home late - and still have to shower, eat and get ready for the morning and next day - I have been getting to bed very late as well. On Wednesday and Thursday night it was late - Thursday I got to bed at midnight! I skipped doing stuff to get to bed at that time - like brushing teeth even, after doing the math as to how much sleep I would be getting (about 51/2). You know you're not getting enough sleep when you wake up and your hair is still damp from the shower you took at 11:30 - or when you take your hair out of a bun after a full day of classes -- and it's still damp-ish!!) Yesterday was my birthday - a good day, but a bit surreal, because it didn't feel like my birthday. I did get 3 cakes total, though - one from my classmates, one from my host family, and one from my family! So that was nice.
I'm not a sleep obsessed person, but I'm really hurting on sleep. Sleep deprivation is not a pleasant feeling, and I don't let myself sleep on public transportation - though truly almost everyone else does. My solution is to not sit on the train in the morning - otherwise I will zonk. One of the trains in the evening can be difficult too. I'm happy to make the sacrifice though, even if it can be hard...
Hopefully more to come soon on more dancing stuff... but for now (yawn), time to try to get ahead on sleep for the week ahead!
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