on staying up late

i have been doing an awful lot more not sleeping than i ever did before college. of course, i knew this was to be expected but i didn't really know how it would hit me. and hit me it did. sometimes it was a love tap. other times it was a flat out punch in the face.

my normal weeknight bedtime is around 12:30. this comes partially from bad time management, but it's also partially not my fault. my suite has 4 girls. all of whom prefer to shower at night. so unless it's my turn to go first, i can expect a 20-45 minute wait for the shower. that pushes my bedtime back significantly. also, floor hours (the curfew to be in another dorm) end at midnight on weeknights. our friends we hang out with on a regular basis live in the other building, so often we're over there right up til curfew. so on a bad night it can be as late as 1 am.

this weekend was a unique situation because i did not sleep at all on friday night. this was not by choice and i was not pulling an all-nighter (geez it's only the 5th week of school!). one of my roommates was in the ER for stomach pain, so we stayed with her all night. and all morning. 12 hours total. and they didn't even fix what was wrong. so my sleep schedule was completely reversed because i went home and slept from 10:30 am to 5 pm. so of course then we were up til midnight again. but then i slept til 11:30. so my sleep schedule has been a little wonky lately.

my roommates and i have made a pact to be back in our room by 11:30 at the latest so that at least most of us can shower and be in bed before midnight. i'm sure our friends in the other building will appreciate this pushed up schedule as well. they need the sleep just as much as we do.

of course, i cope with my strange sleep schedule with copious amounts of caffeine at various times of day. normally in the morning though. it's tough to make it through 8 am chemistry without a little help... yesterday i had a starbucks doubleshot (the kind in the can) and a starbucks mocha frappe when we went to target. and this was all after 2 pm. so i was pretty energetic today...

TGIF

so i'm currently procrastinating. don't worry, not from anything important. i only have to wash practically every dish i own...

it's a little odd for me to have this in between time. we ate lunch earlier than normal today. weekends are a funny thing at college. on fridays, you can hear the same conversation everywhere you go: are you going home this weekend? at my college, many people do. it feels pretty dead around here. i'm excited for this weekend because for the first time, all my roommates are staying the weekend :)

everyone is asleep on saturdays. i don't get up until 11 and i only get up that early because i have to work at 1. most of the time my roomies are still asleep when i leave for work. saturday evening is when things start to pick up. shopping and movie nights and hanging out til 2 am (that's our dorm curfew). last weekend we watched 3 movies in one night, two of which were horror movies.

sunday is homework time. we get up relatively early for church. unfortunately for me, the library doesn't open until 3. i have a hard time studying in my room because my desk is cluttered. i work at 3 though, so i can buckle down and get it done right after.

then it all starts over: sleepclasseatclassworkhomeworkchillsleep

finally getting into the groove of things, learning what works and what doesn't.

oh, before i go: a nerdfighter vlog is in the planning stages. for real this time :)

um what day is it again...?

so i've been at college long enough to lose track of how many weeks i've been here. i know it's not that long. something like 3 or 4 weeks i think. i can hardly keep track of what day it is. probably from sleep deprivation. although i did sleep for a whole 10 hours last night. that's why i love saturdays :)

took my first actual tests in college. chemistry and spanish. chemistry didn't go as well as i could've hoped. spanish wasn't too terrible. having a college textbook last year helped i think... although i had a college book for chemistry too. must have been my spanish study group then :)

weekends are boring here. two of my roommates left for the weekend and the other was gone all day. that worked out well though, because we planned a surprise for her. her boyfriend came to visit, but she didn't know. pretty much everyone we know was in on it except her. it was pretty epic :)

i've noticed something funny. i acclimated to living with a group pretty quickly. so much so that to have only 2 people living here (even if only for a day or two) feels weird and empty. somehow i'm already used to being near other people, even if i don't know them or aren't talking to them or anything. i guess i've always kind of preferred to be around other people, but now that that's the norm, i miss it even more when it's gone.

so yeah. that's college right now...

first real weekend at college...

so at this point i'm taking a study break from having to buckle down and do actual homework. anywho, i'm on my first real break from school while still being at school. it's been a little odd having one of my roommates gone for 4 days with the soccer team. fun times though.

my school had a big organized trip to a brewers game on friday. except they ran out of tickets so i didn't get to go... instead, one of the emilys, my friend joel, and i stayed in and had a movie night. first time in awhile i watched scary movies. we watched paranormal activity (joel and i hadn't seen it before) slow beginning (and middle) but the end was scary. then someone had the bright idea that we should watch haunting in conneticut. surprisingly, i didn't have that hard of a time falling asleep. probably because we were up past 2 a.m.

last night they held an outdoor movie night. the movie was pirates 4 (yay!!) it was fun even though we were freezing and the ground out there is pretty uncomfortable. after that we were just hanging out in our hall. until pretty late. we decided to dye emily's hair. at 12:30 am. we'd all had some caffeine so hilarity ensued.

overall a good couple of nights. i believe another movie night is in the works for this evening since half the people we know who have been gone are coming back :D

i guess it's back to homework now because i have to work in an hour...

plum pudding theory

today in chemistry we talked about the plum pudding theory about atoms. they used to think everything in an atom was all jumbled together instead of one bit in the center and mostly empty space around it. that's kind of my life right now. everything jumbled together and running into each other and you can't really tell where one thing starts and another begins but it's all good :)

so basically, right now, life = insanity. in a good way :) classes are good but i'm always busy. i just gave a speech about myself in communications today. i think it went well :) my fingers are hurting as i type this because i bought a ukulele!!!!! it's purple and beautiful. i'll post some pictures soon i think. i love it. i set my spanish vocabulary to chords this morning so i could study and practice chord changes at the same time. never had so much fun studying spanish in my life! i'll probably whine about my fingers until they're callused but it's gonna be totally worth it.

yeah so speaking of spanish, i'm really liking it here. and boy do i appreciate my grammar nazi teachers in high school! (no really, one of them calls herself the grammar nazi) and their obsession with no english during class. alot of my classmates aren't used to having class in spanish so it's a huge advantage for me.

i went home for labor day because i had to work at the park. three days of vacuuming cobwebs off the walls and ceilings of the barns was not very fun. at least i'll get paid :) while i was home i also got my birthay present from my mom. iphone!!!!! i LOVE it!! :) (psst! thanks again mom :)

so yesterday was my 19th birthday :D like a million people said happy birthday to me. my uke came in the mail, my roomies bought me a cake and we had a bunch of people over to eat it. i had almost no immediately important homework to do, which was nice so i could practice my ukulele (that's kind of alot to type so from here on out i'm just going to use uke) i'm pretty much learning uke from the internet. chords, strum patterns, songs, etc. it's awesome :)

i definitely don't get as much sleep at college as i did in high school but a steady stream of caffeine takes care of that for me ;) when i first arrived, i was a little worried about the smallness of my room/bathroom but as it turns out, the size has really brought my roommate and suitemates and i together. they've certainly become my family away from home.

i think some of the shiny newness of college has worn off, but i still like it. i feel like this is where i'm supposed to be :)