| This song has been stuck in my head for three days |
[Jul. 12th, 2008|09:39 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  bitchy | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Wise Guys - Sonnenschein | ] |
Ugh I feel terrible. My stomach is leading my digestive tract's rebellion against me, and I have no idea why. That's actually not true at all: I suspect I know exactly what's wrong. ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) avatar1983 was under the weather briefly yesterday, but this has been on basically since I ate anything today. I'm not convinced it's actually illness, though, since the first food I had today was half a bag of peanut M&M's and a Dr Pepper Zero. I don't deal as well with sweet things right off the bat as well as I often wish I did. Plus, everything I've had since then has basically been sweet as well (except I am currently taking solace in Pringles). So really, it's been a poor day for digestive decision-making.
I have also been short of temper and shorter of patience all this week, and yesterday was the worst yet. It was awful, and I hate being in genuine bad moods. Plus I knew it would happen. Yesterday I officially moved out of Victoria Hall and into what has heretofore been referred to as "elyndys's house." (Hooray! I'm actually super happy about this :D) I, like everyone I know, hate moving. I like new places and all that, but I hate transporting heavy things and doing the tedious parts like making up beds etc. It never, ever fails to put me in a dreadful mood and cut my temper down to imperceptibly short, which infuriates me even more because I hate not being able to curb my temper. I'm sure this is true of basically everyone. But anyway, so, yes. Yesterday most of my stuff had already been brought here on Thursday, but it was being stored in the front room and the kitchen until yesterday, mostly for time reasons. So yesterday I dragged elyndys along to move the last of my things out (this was while avatar1983 was ill), then I stayed behind to scrub the room down, take out the last of the trash, and hand in my keys, which I did. It took about an hour (including 20 minutes of vacuuming D:). Not terrible, but not exactly fun.
When I returned, there had been developed a plan for optimizing space usage (who else but avatar1983? lol) that involved moving every single piece of furniture in one room, including trading one upstairs for one that had been up there before. Okay, fine - again, not terrible, but coming on the heels of the scrub-down and with the actual moving my stuff upstairs still looming? I wasn't exactly pleased. In any event we did it, then got everything moved up to my room (perhaps unfairly, I basically made avatar1983 do this). I like to do whole jobs at once, so I did my best to get through everything, but there comes a point (about 2am, as it turns out) when you just can't organize or unpack another thing or you will literally melt your own brain. That was when I went to bed.
So that was probably the world's most boring story for you: sorry. Just getting it off my chest in as "broad-strokes" a way as possible. In short, I think the stress of moving and work not yet done has been weighing me down and made me seriously intolerant of basically everything. Fortunately I have been able to rant at elyndys (thank yoooou~! :D), and have reason to believe it will soon pass (or at least to hope so :O).
Time for some happier news: apple Tango! Delicious :9 Also, avatar1983 and I are going chair-shopping tomorrow so I will have a real computer chair (as opposed to dorm-issued ones or theiving kitchen chairs)! Also, I now officially live where I've been basically living for months! Two days ago I made that bananas foster pudding I had a recipe for and it's actually really good! I modified the recipe a little because, well, I had to, but I don't think it's suffered for it (substituted rum for the banana liqueur, ½ cup double cream for the 1½ cup milk, and added a bottle of dark chocolate dessert sauce on top as soon as it came out of the oven: mmmmmm :9), so hooray! I engineered the downloading of two more Wise Guys albums (remember the German a capella pop I keep talking about? That's them, and now I have three albums to listen to ad nauseam XD), and am in the process of absorbing the words to my favorite tracks (this takes much longer with foreign-language tracks than English, sadly D:), so that's exciting :D
Also, elyndys and I went to see a staged interpretation of my favorite of the Horrible Histories books (which I love. Wikipedia's weigh-in here) this evening. Predictably, it was stuffed to the gills with children (with whom I had this week's harshly limited patience; fortunately contact was equally limited), but was highly enjoyable especially for a 2-hour stage show that cost £9.50. I realized I'm getting old and turning into a real academic while I sat there thinking, "I don't remember the book being quite so inaccurate!" Overall (like the books) it was good about qualifying a lot of the more outlandish claims about history (Elizabeth I's famous speech before going against the Armada, Greensleeves, etc.), but sometimes it didn't qualify - like it never said, "Actually no, Richard III wasn't a limping, shrivelled hunchback, and he wasn't really any more ruthless than anybody else, Henry VII included." Still, I liked it, and I liked that such a show exists (even as simplified and inaccurate as it ends up being - it is for children, I must keep reminding myself). I'm glad I went, and I'm glad elyndys came with me :D
I apologize for my continued absence (lol like it really matters XD), and maintain that sometime in the near-ish future, it will be back to (closer to) normal. In the meantime, I've got more organizing and unpacking to do (oddly enough, I'm still not finished) and, when that's through, a TON of work to cram in while there's still time. Oh God, oh God I'm never going to survive this MA. Why am I an idiot, I would really like to know. Anyhow, I'm off to unpack/organize a little bit more with the eternal hope that this time I'll get all the way through and it'll be done. Oh, my.
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