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Jan. 10th, 2006 09:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luciabFirst night of class, second day of work. I am exhausted. half hours, but I thought they would close at 5, thus allowing me time to eat dinner before my class at 6. Nope; in a fit of public service, the office stayed open till they had seen everyone who was there, and it took me till 6 to get the paperwork all done. Straight to class, which meant no dinner for me. Fortunately the teacher gave us a break, so I scarfed down some yogurt. It got me home, at least.
I'm going to have to get used to night classes. I am definitely not a real morning person but right now I peak at midafternoon. I do okay at night if, say, I'm painting, but abstract thinking at night, after a full day... gonna be a challenge. Tonight's class was "Organization of Information," aka cataloging. An awfully lot of what she talked about tonight was, to me, horrifyingly abstract. I hope to hell that either the class gets more concrete or I am more alert after I get more accustomed to working again. I expect it'll help when I've not spent two and a half hours in the financial aid office and I've had dinner. I hope.
Part of my disorientation is probably also not being familiar with the campus. When I was in college before, I knew the towns and knew about parking and how to get around campus before I started classes. Not so much this time.
I am happy with the way work is going, at least. So far it's been fun. I've had a couple of questions that felt dumb when I asked them but really, I had no way of knowing the answers. And it's really nice starting work someplace where you are at least semi-familiar. If I'd had to start a new job at a completely strange place where I didn't know anyone on the same day I started classes on a new campus where I didn't know anyone, I might never had come out from under the covers again.
One of the most interesting discoveries I've made in the last few days is how much caffeine has helped make my migraines go away. I've been off caffeine for the last few years for sort of long-term reasons, but right now I don't have insurance so you can bet I'm hoarding my Imitrex till I get insurance again. Ergo, when I started getting a migraine, I took caffeine as my first line of treatment. And voila! And twitch, twitch. It's both wonderful and terrifying. I'm concerned for a couple of reasons. 1) Will the caffeine help less as my body becomes reaccustomed to it? And 2) How do I balance immediate benefits versus long-term problems? Not life-threatening problems, but more contributary things. Is that a word?
In Good News! of the woo hoo! variety, I got a call yesterday from the apartment office, telling me that my neighbor, she of the Alarm Clock From Hell, came in to apologize. She said that she has a "noise machine" and didn't know it also had an alarm on it, and that's what's been going off for two hours at a pop when she's gone. They said she was very apologetic, which makes me hope it's at an end. Damn, how I hope it's at an end.
The Shield has thrown me for a loop- I didn't know I'd missed any episodes, but I was watching the last reruns to get back in the zone and saw one I hadn't seen. And lordamercy, a hot sex scene came out of nowhere between Vic and a woman cop, when I didn't know they'd even been eyeing each other. And now she's pregnant and not saying who's the dad. As if there's not enough drama on this show. Unfortunately, Glenn Close is off the show and they have a new captain. If they explained why this happened in terms of the storyline, I missed that too. Man, I hate it when that happens.
That's all for tonight, folks. Maybe I'll have more exciting news tomorrow. Tune in.
I'm going to have to get used to night classes. I am definitely not a real morning person but right now I peak at midafternoon. I do okay at night if, say, I'm painting, but abstract thinking at night, after a full day... gonna be a challenge. Tonight's class was "Organization of Information," aka cataloging. An awfully lot of what she talked about tonight was, to me, horrifyingly abstract. I hope to hell that either the class gets more concrete or I am more alert after I get more accustomed to working again. I expect it'll help when I've not spent two and a half hours in the financial aid office and I've had dinner. I hope.
Part of my disorientation is probably also not being familiar with the campus. When I was in college before, I knew the towns and knew about parking and how to get around campus before I started classes. Not so much this time.
I am happy with the way work is going, at least. So far it's been fun. I've had a couple of questions that felt dumb when I asked them but really, I had no way of knowing the answers. And it's really nice starting work someplace where you are at least semi-familiar. If I'd had to start a new job at a completely strange place where I didn't know anyone on the same day I started classes on a new campus where I didn't know anyone, I might never had come out from under the covers again.
One of the most interesting discoveries I've made in the last few days is how much caffeine has helped make my migraines go away. I've been off caffeine for the last few years for sort of long-term reasons, but right now I don't have insurance so you can bet I'm hoarding my Imitrex till I get insurance again. Ergo, when I started getting a migraine, I took caffeine as my first line of treatment. And voila! And twitch, twitch. It's both wonderful and terrifying. I'm concerned for a couple of reasons. 1) Will the caffeine help less as my body becomes reaccustomed to it? And 2) How do I balance immediate benefits versus long-term problems? Not life-threatening problems, but more contributary things. Is that a word?
In Good News! of the woo hoo! variety, I got a call yesterday from the apartment office, telling me that my neighbor, she of the Alarm Clock From Hell, came in to apologize. She said that she has a "noise machine" and didn't know it also had an alarm on it, and that's what's been going off for two hours at a pop when she's gone. They said she was very apologetic, which makes me hope it's at an end. Damn, how I hope it's at an end.
The Shield has thrown me for a loop- I didn't know I'd missed any episodes, but I was watching the last reruns to get back in the zone and saw one I hadn't seen. And lordamercy, a hot sex scene came out of nowhere between Vic and a woman cop, when I didn't know they'd even been eyeing each other. And now she's pregnant and not saying who's the dad. As if there's not enough drama on this show. Unfortunately, Glenn Close is off the show and they have a new captain. If they explained why this happened in terms of the storyline, I missed that too. Man, I hate it when that happens.
That's all for tonight, folks. Maybe I'll have more exciting news tomorrow. Tune in.
