Archive for November 13th, 2009

I am sitting in the library (not a rare occurrence), and am getting antsy and wanting to go home (similarly not rare). But I really want to write a good post, and I just wrote a whole one that was all rambling and weird, so I tossed it and am going to write a different, even more weird and rambling that the last. Hahaha.

Things have been fairly lame lately – I have had this low-level cold and headache for like a week, people at home are all generally a)overtired and b)overworked, leading to c)overwhelm on a mass scale. It’s weird how when you’re really getting things done, things seem to be such a convoluted mess. Industry industry. But basically the worst is the monotony that everyone falls into (okay, I’m assuming everyone does) in the middle of the term. You look back and see weeks and weeks of the same, and look forward and see…more….and your reserves of energy, motivation, and whatever is the opposite of apathy are dwindling. However, some things have saved me.

1. The radio – every day for about fifteen minutes when I am driving I switch between Jack FM, Mix (which plays mostly newer soft pop) and KTCU, which I listen to when the other stations are on ad breaks or playing something obnoxious (it plays mostly soft music, which always works, and has hardly any ad breaks)

2. My siblings. Last night, I came home to find that V, my high-school aged brother, had come home sick early. He lay wrapped in a sheet on his bed, groaning. I got him some medicine to relieve his symptoms, and told him if he wanted to talk he could come in my room, as I was trying to clean it up. I left to take care of something, and came back to find, yup, he’d moved. The next thing I knew they were all in my room (A, the youngest, would fall asleep on the bed). We sat around chatting about I-don’t-know-what. Music probably. Anyways, it was just really nice.

3. My dog, who has been a lot friendlier since she started getting frequent walks.

4. Discovering I could do some schoolwork while listening to music, as long as it wasn’t memorization work and the music was fairly innocuous (preferably without words).

5. Going to meetings to become a Hospital Minister. Once finished, I’ll go as a representative of St. Mary’s and visit Catholic patients at Harris Methodist, downtown.

6. Really good music playlists. I have a few that I just love. They make me so happy. I think this is something that works for everyone.

7. Saying prayers every night, even if it’s a struggle to stay on target and not drift off into daydreams

8. And, most of all, things like this: I have O-Chem lab every Wednesday. This week, as usual, it had been fairly tedious, and I was there after 5, when it’s supposed to end, again. However, as I was waiting for my final product to distill – it was taking all day I swear – I looked around at the motley group of perhaps a half-dozen people who were similarly still hanging around. And I saw friends. Every one of them was one. I literally thought that – “friends! look! they’re all friends!” (Yup, you just got a first-person glance into T’s brain right there. I’m so complex, I know) That afternoon, one of them had taught me, to great embarrassment, to nod my head and lift my hands in just the right way, as I needed to be more “hood” and, further, I would do it every time I saw him. I don’t know why, it was just a really great moment. I wanted to have people over for a dinner since my birthday is coming up (actually, I’ve been wanting to for a while and figured that’d be a good excuse) but I never got down to organizing it. Maybe next week. That’s something to break the monotony!

Well, that’s all I have. It wasn’t riotously funny, or just riotous, but maybe next time. Cheers!