Tired, But Okay, Day
Monday was a pretty good day. I didn’t really feel like I accomplished that much but I was working the whole day so it wasn’t like I was just being lazy so I felt good about that. I had e-mailed Kyle the night before to ask him to call me so he could make me feel better since my Sunday wasn’t great. I told him I didn’t care what time it was. So he got into Louisville around 12:30 a.m. his time and called me my time around 5:30 a.m. so I had gotten about 6 1/2 hours of sleep. We talked for a while and he told me all about his conference. He had a really good time which was good. When we got off the phone, I tried to go back to sleep but I couldn’t so I just got up and took a shower and had breakfast and tea.
Then I wrote some e-mails to some Georgetown people about my schedule next semester and all this stuff I need to take care of for over there while I’m over here. Then I had gotten some Halloween e-cards from my mom and my grandma so those were fun to look at. And then I went about the task of trying to find a book that would give a good account of anti-globalization to recommend to my tutor but that the library would also have, which turned out not to be too easy. I got a few call numbers written down, and then headed out to Regent’s for lunch. Nothing spectacular to tell of there. I didn’t sit near anyone I knew very well so I just ate my food.
Then I went over to the social sciences library and looked up books. I finally picked out one that was about critical theory, international relations, and the ‘anti-globalization movement’ and I read it all afternoon. I got a little over halfway through and was completely drained. The only thing I learned about anti-globalization was that it was the U.S.’s fault and that there was an insurrection for it in Mexico led by a guy who wrote poetry. Even got to read some of his poems. So then I went to put it back. It was a confined book and the book that I had originally wanted was there. It wasn’t there before so I figured it was checked out. Turns out it was confined too but whoever had been using it hadn’t put in the little slip that said that they were using it but it was still in the library. So it was only 135 pages and I still had 100 pages in the other book, so I decided I would come over early this morning and read it instead of the one I had already started.
I walked over to Regent’s and it was raining and already very dark. I don’t like this whole getting dark even earlier thing. I went up to the JCR to check my mail and just sort of sat until dinner. I was very tired. Ruth came in right before the bell rang and she asked how I was. I told her I had just read half a book and it was crap. She said that that was a good one word description, crap. I laughed. Then we walked down to dinner. The vegetarian option didn’t look too pretty but it filled me up and looked better than the meat option which was a piece of porkchop about half the size of my hand, and my hand is pretty small. Everybody who got that said it didn’t fill them up. Then dessert was an apple crisp with mostly raisins and not much apple in it but it was okay.
I had thought about staying a little while after dinner, but I hadn’t expected to be so tired and Marshelle was leaving right after so we walked back together. Passed quite a few people in some interesting Halloween costumes. Marshelle told me about her weekend of borrowing other people’s clothes and I told her about my weekend of everything being closed. When I got in, I had another Halloween e-card from my roomie Melissa, so I got to see a skeleton dance, which is always entertaining. Then I talked to Kim online and she asked me what I had learned. I told her and she said I make her feel so stupid when I talk and she loves it, so I tried to explain it in ‘American English’ as she said. Then I talked to Kyle on the phone, read my book for a little bit and fell asleep around 10:45 or so. I woke up at 12:30 and called my mom, who told me I should be in bed. I told her I had just gotten out of it and was planning on going back after I said hi and said I was doing good. I washed my face, brushed my teeth, and had no trouble falling back to sleep.