Lots of sleep is good
First off, I feel bad about what I wrote yesterday about the other G-town students. They seem to be doing fine in their tutorials, so maybe I am just working too much. Or maybe they just don’t get as much sleep as I do. I’m sure they value academics and this experience and maybe they’re doing it the right way. I don’t know. To each their own. I’m good with how I’m doing my thing, so yeah, just wanted to say that because I think about stuff way too much.
Onto my day yesterday. I got up and in the morning tried to do research for this paper. Which I found a bunch of stuff I guess, but I’m still having a lot of trouble actually writing the paper. So I read through stuff and narrowed my things down to a few articles and web pages and sent those links to myself in an e-mail. Then I heard someone vacuuming outside and I thought it was perhaps the cleaning people, especially when I went out of my room and it smelled like cleaners. So I straightened my room real quick and made sure to hide all my food. I don’t think they ever came into my room, if it was even them, but it never hurts to straighten the room.
I walked to Regent’s and had my usual lunch. I sat next to Ruth and we talked about what we had done for the day. We might go out to G&D’s Thursday after dinner so I can celebrate Thanksgiving with ice cream. She doesn’t know if she’s going to this church thing or not so we’ll see. After lunch I walked over to the social sciences library and tried to do some more research and reading more thoroughly through the articles I already had. I tried to start the paper and got the introduction and part of the works cited page done. But then I noticed I was sort of focusing on the wrong thing, which makes it harder but maybe I can just still sort of focus on the first thing.
I felt like I couldn’t write anything more then so I checked my e-mail and got an e-mail from Melissa, who said my pictures on flickr made her laugh, so I’m glad people can actually see them. I wrote her back, checked out a book that I thought might help me draw in some theory to my paper so it’s not just empirical evidence, and then decided to walk over to Regent’s to look through the book and try to put together at least an outline of the paper. The book did not turn out to be as helpful as I thought it would be so that didn’t take long. I got some notes down for my paper, and then walked over to the JCR and watched people play table football until dinner.
Jonnie was there and he asked me about my second undergrad. I told him I didn’t think I had much chance and then Ruth came up and mentioned the econ guy saying not many second undergrads being accepted. Jonnie said he thought it was more of a case by case basis and the statistics shouldn’t mean much, not that he’s really an expert on Oxford admissions, but it made me feel better. He asked me why I hadn’t put Regent’s for my first choice and I said I wish I had now, but too late. Dinner was weird. It was like a pastry with brie and cranberry. Having cheese with jam and having it all warm is just weird (unless it’s cream cheese with pepper jelly, but then I still like it cold). So I took the cheese out and ate it on my potatoes and had the pastry with the jam-like stuff separate. So it filled me up but wasn’t very good, and there wasn’t any good dessert. Ruth and I talked about how we’re getting tired of potatoes. I never thought it would happend but it has. I’ll still eat them to fill me up but when I get home, I’ll be asking for other things. Except maybe mashed potatoes because we haven’t really had those.
I walked home after dinner and talked to Kyle while he ate before he left to go home to Richmond for his break. Then I crocheted some. I’m glad I have my crochet stuff but at the same time it’s sort of bad because I get sort of addicted and don’t want to stop. I like to finish things and you can’t really do that in one sitting so I have to stop myself. After I stopped crocheting, I fell asleep. My mom called later and woke me up so I talked to her for a bit, then fell asleep again. I woke up at 1:30 and realized I hadn’t brushed my teeth or washed my face so I did that, called Kyle for a few minutes just because, and then went back to sleep. So I got quite a bit of sleep, hoping to make my sickness go away faster. Hasn’t worked yet but we’ll see.