Ignore the griping Dagas
Dec. 14th, 2003 12:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dagas_isaGrrr... my characters have their own account, so weary me must drag myself over to the laptop and update people as to what's actually going on.
I. Need. Sleep. Yes need.
I went to bed shortly after writing that last entry and did the usual tossing and turning and settling that is prerequisite to a good night's sleep, and managed to get in a good three hours before my alarm went off. I'm sure I must have slept through something, but I don't know if it was much. So let's give my ability to sleep through my alarm the benefit of the doubt and call it around three and a half. Not bad really. Except that I was dead on my feet last night, enough that I didn't bother shutting down the lappie or even signing off of AIM.
But I awoke, which was really a good thing considering that I had to prepare for my presentation and get myself over to the FLB by 9:00 a.m. I printed out my presentation notes, and was about to make something of a handout, only to find out that my printer wanted to have low ink today. So I head over to the Newman computer lab only to discover that their printer also wanted to do the low toner tango as well. So no handouts for me or my poor classmates.
I managed to score some muffins from the cafeteria on my way to the FLB and actually eat one on the way. Despite leaving at almost 9:00, I beat Bokamba and about half the class to the classroom, and much to my extreme dismay, discovered that I left my presentation notes at the dorm when I got everything ready to go. So during the first ten-minute break, I raced back to my dorm, which is luckily the closest one to campus and retrieved the papers. And I managed to make it back in time.
Life, and the presentations continued, through to lunch, when we had some free pizza. Everyone ate quickly and *shockgasp* we were ahead of schedule. My own presentation was the second one after lunch, and after I completely messed up, I ran back to my dorm again to retrieve the book that was on overnight loan to me and return it to the Modern Language Library by 2:00. This of course requires climbing up four stories of stairs and negotiating the maze of the library halls to find said library.
Again, I managed to get back at an opportune time, and sat through the rest of the presentations. Because we were ahead of schedule and one person hadn't shown, we got out at 3:00 instead of the expected 4:00 time. Earliness is good.
And so began the adventures of the sleepless Dagas.
I planned on doing this journal entry earlier. Like when I got back, so that people could know when they were allowed to call/contact me during this evening. Only the internet died. And all that good stuffs. Something about an exploding battery. So I just went to sleep, only to have my roomies about and chatting. So I get up without actually napping.
Attempt number two was between five and six, since Achira-san was at a basketball game and Sochi was at church. But Achira-san was in and out slamming doors for half an hour, and Sochi was going to subway and came back with an extremely noisy bag of chips. Yes, a bag of chips prevented me from getting sleep.
I wake up, have dinner, and con my way into attempt number three. Me-chan has a bedroom, and her suitemates are out for quite a bit of time. So I conned my way into getting an invitation to take a nap over there. Pillow in hand I made my way to IT. And something just didn't work, maybe the lack of blanketness. I finally used that black thing I occasionally wear called a coat as a comforter of sorts, and supposedly started snoring according to a reliable earwitness. Of course then her suitemates came home and started making noise. Hence the third attempt has failed.
The final attempt was about two hours ago, when Sabi informed me that there would be no RP tonight. *cries* I had something going. Dark, quiet, and warm blankets, only Sochi's boyfirend called and the people in the room next door were being loud. And I mean worse than usual even though this is supposed to be 24 hour quiet time beause of finals. So weary of trying to sleep, I made my way back to the computer.
*whines* So I'm cold, lonely, tired, and I'm not getting any sleep anytime soon.
Live with it.
Over and out.
I. Need. Sleep. Yes need.
I went to bed shortly after writing that last entry and did the usual tossing and turning and settling that is prerequisite to a good night's sleep, and managed to get in a good three hours before my alarm went off. I'm sure I must have slept through something, but I don't know if it was much. So let's give my ability to sleep through my alarm the benefit of the doubt and call it around three and a half. Not bad really. Except that I was dead on my feet last night, enough that I didn't bother shutting down the lappie or even signing off of AIM.
But I awoke, which was really a good thing considering that I had to prepare for my presentation and get myself over to the FLB by 9:00 a.m. I printed out my presentation notes, and was about to make something of a handout, only to find out that my printer wanted to have low ink today. So I head over to the Newman computer lab only to discover that their printer also wanted to do the low toner tango as well. So no handouts for me or my poor classmates.
I managed to score some muffins from the cafeteria on my way to the FLB and actually eat one on the way. Despite leaving at almost 9:00, I beat Bokamba and about half the class to the classroom, and much to my extreme dismay, discovered that I left my presentation notes at the dorm when I got everything ready to go. So during the first ten-minute break, I raced back to my dorm, which is luckily the closest one to campus and retrieved the papers. And I managed to make it back in time.
Life, and the presentations continued, through to lunch, when we had some free pizza. Everyone ate quickly and *shockgasp* we were ahead of schedule. My own presentation was the second one after lunch, and after I completely messed up, I ran back to my dorm again to retrieve the book that was on overnight loan to me and return it to the Modern Language Library by 2:00. This of course requires climbing up four stories of stairs and negotiating the maze of the library halls to find said library.
Again, I managed to get back at an opportune time, and sat through the rest of the presentations. Because we were ahead of schedule and one person hadn't shown, we got out at 3:00 instead of the expected 4:00 time. Earliness is good.
And so began the adventures of the sleepless Dagas.
I planned on doing this journal entry earlier. Like when I got back, so that people could know when they were allowed to call/contact me during this evening. Only the internet died. And all that good stuffs. Something about an exploding battery. So I just went to sleep, only to have my roomies about and chatting. So I get up without actually napping.
Attempt number two was between five and six, since Achira-san was at a basketball game and Sochi was at church. But Achira-san was in and out slamming doors for half an hour, and Sochi was going to subway and came back with an extremely noisy bag of chips. Yes, a bag of chips prevented me from getting sleep.
I wake up, have dinner, and con my way into attempt number three. Me-chan has a bedroom, and her suitemates are out for quite a bit of time. So I conned my way into getting an invitation to take a nap over there. Pillow in hand I made my way to IT. And something just didn't work, maybe the lack of blanketness. I finally used that black thing I occasionally wear called a coat as a comforter of sorts, and supposedly started snoring according to a reliable earwitness. Of course then her suitemates came home and started making noise. Hence the third attempt has failed.
The final attempt was about two hours ago, when Sabi informed me that there would be no RP tonight. *cries* I had something going. Dark, quiet, and warm blankets, only Sochi's boyfirend called and the people in the room next door were being loud. And I mean worse than usual even though this is supposed to be 24 hour quiet time beause of finals. So weary of trying to sleep, I made my way back to the computer.
*whines* So I'm cold, lonely, tired, and I'm not getting any sleep anytime soon.
Live with it.
Over and out.
