The woes of schoolwork

I'm half heartedly trying to work on an essay due on Wednesday. Yes, I still have another day, but I also need to work on a group project tomorrow...the work for that also due on Wednesday.

So what am I doing, hanging out at The Nunnery. Dinner is being made at some point soon, there's a duo working on their speech for nationals. I've almost added another page to this essay in...hmmm...three hours? There's an excellent rate, eh?

I'm on a West Wing kick. Seriously, I'm in love with that show. Good characters, good writing, what more could one ask for?

Hmmm...burnt my finger cooking orange chicken. It hurts to type a bit. Oh well, I still need to work on the essay...whooopdedooo...

A Day of Serious Home Rest

I woke up this morning, earlier than I wanted, but I was awake, so roused myself, though I stayed in bed. I eventually got up and did a bit of homework, just a bit.

My mother and I got on the same page for our two upcoming retreats. One, we were never concerned about...and still aren't. The other, well, it's coming along. We've got a few months to work on it, and another resource to use that should be published soon, woot.

I took a 2.5 hour nap. Yay. That felt good, I liked the mattress much better than the one in my room anyways.

Yeah, today wasn't exactly note worthy. Though I have ended it with some good viewing of the TV show Bones and two text convo's with the Ash-A-Bash and Mike. Good times indeed. :)

Spring Break Update

The following is a break update. I have Mike Doughty's "I Hear the Bells" going through my head. Perhaps it would be wise to read this with that song play. I don't know. Get into my head a little bit...if you dare :)

Detox: I didn't go for two full days. I stopped yesterday around one. I was feeling immensely better anyways, seriously, immensely better. I still have the stuff and am considering going another day when I get back from break. What happened? Well, I like food a lot. Two days without food is difficult, especially when the options for food are really really good. I'll do it when I'm back in SF and not wanting to make a meal for myself. Deal.

Grandma: No new news yet.

Friends: I've seen pretty much everyone I've expected to see already, I'll see almost all of them again almost before I go home. Good times.

Thesis: Making a bit of progress, not sure how I feel about that...oh well, quite frankly I don't care that I'm not sure how I feel about that :)

Other homework: Doing some decent work, perhaps not as much progress as I would have hoped for before break, but actually doing more during break that I have in the past, yay me!

Super Mario Galaxy/Relaxing/Sleeping: Making great progress, quite happy :)

Grandma Fors

This is a picture of my dear maternal grandmother. I found out as my mother drove me home on Friday that she had been complaining of abdominal pain and they went into get it checked up. Verdict was Lymphoma.

My mother just got a phone call from her sisters who are with my grandmother now through all the testing. What I've managed to hear from my parents chatting is that "It's worse than they thought" and "malignant cancer."

Yeah for good news, eh? I'll keep y'all updated as I know more. Might be making a quick trip back east sometime in the nearish future.

Detox

So I decided to detox for two days this break. My body felt completely gross and sluggish, so I decided to try and get rid of the toxins. Here's how it's gone down:

I got a detox pamphlet from a vitamin store near my place. There's a list of do and don't foods. I was planning on using that to create a diet for a few days to flush out my systems...

Until my Aunt decided to dump off a detox liquid bottle on me, she said she was going to use it but wants me to try it out first, guinea pig it for her. It's a 48 hour plan. The idea is that you mix 4 oz of this green liquid with 4 oz of water. Drink that over four hours and repeat over the 48 hours. Oh, and 8 oz of pure water every two hours. But that's it.

Now, how I fared:
Pretty good all day. Even with fresh baked bread. And Easter candy. And family meals. The green stuff actually sufficed when I got hunger pangs. At least until tonight. I finished off my 3:00 dose of green stuffs and 5:00 glass of water, and succumbed to the need to chew. I was good and abided by the dietary guidelines of the pamphlet.

Confession: I want to gorge myself on delicious food right now. I want to take my Easter basket and eat ALL the chocolate in it. I want to eat lots and lots of carbs.

Plan: Do the same thing tomorrow that I did today. Wednesday will be glorious.