Ugh, the past couple days have been miserable. Not long after I made my last post, I did get to work on my assignments. I've had a very large project, and ideally I wanted to get things to my group by Friday at 5:00 PM as they were hoping. (Of course, frankly, that was unreasonable of them. Even if I'd sent it this evening, it'd hardly take too long for them to integrate everything, and it's due Monday afternoon.) Well, it took longer than I thought. I stayed up until around 6:00 AM Friday morning hard at work. (But right before I got to work, I went to the Lexington Clinic website and submitted a request for an appointment. They advertise that they'll call you back within a business day to set things up.) After that, I decided to get a bit of sleep, which maybe ended up lasting four hours at best. Then I was up and resumed work. I didn't eat lunch. Nor had I eaten any dinner the preceding night. My work continued until late Friday evening. Shortly before 6, I needed to go to the library. I arrived... a couple minutes after it closed. Blast. So then, feeling reasonably well for my condition, I walked over to Subway to grab some nourishment. Then I returned here and hammered away at the last touches of my paper (using the lone lexicon that I do actually own, thank God) until it was done at 6:41 PM. After that, I rewarded myself by letting myself eat the sub I'd purchased. It was my usual buffalo chicken, minus the spare hot sauce because I wasn't sure my throat would appreciate that. And despite my loss of some taste capacity, it was phenomenal. Maybe even seemed better than usual.
Anyway, my work was not done. I'd been taking notes on an assortment of books to make sure I had done my due diligence. I finished that after a few more hours. Between Thursday night and Friday night, I had produced 57 solid pages of notes on hundreds of pages of material that I had read. It was pretty brutal. So at 9:52 PM, I sent my bibliographic data to the group member responsible for organizing that. But I wasn't done. Over the next half-hour, I had to condense the important findings on my topic itself (Melchizedek) down to five PowerPoint slides. I mainly based it on the first book I'd read (Horton's Melchizedek Tradition), but with plenty of counterpoints and alternatives from the other material. Unfortunately I had neither the space nor the competence to include anything about Melchizedek in Hebrews, which is even more controverted. So I submitted that at 10:37 PM... and my part was at last done.
Anyway, the rest of my night I did my best to relax, though I got some unpleasant news about someone close to me who had betrayed me rather severely. Won't get into the details here, for her sake. I was ultimately up until around 1 or 2 AM, catching up on some fun things on the Internet I'd missed during my intense study session.
So then I got to sleep for a while, but this morning has not been well. (Oh, have I mentioned that I never heard back about that doctor appointment? Yeah, kind of need that.) I'm not sure whether I can blame diarrhea on my illness, but there were a few hours there that were nonstop... activity. My throat has been killin' me since last night. Apparently any seeming recovery yesterday was just the calm before the storm. I sound absolutely horrible. When I finally resumed my rest around 10 AM, I figured I'd sleep 'til maybe noon. Wrong. Try 4:15 PM. Whatever I've got is really beating me up. I'm still fatigued, I have a headache, and I feel other things wrong with me that I can't even identify. Ugh. Thankfully tomorrow's Sunday, which is a walk-in day at the clinic, my neighbor assures me. After church (if I go and risk exposing those poor people to whatever I've got), I can drive over to the Nicholasville branch of the clinic and see about getting taken care of.
Anyway, my work was not done. I'd been taking notes on an assortment of books to make sure I had done my due diligence. I finished that after a few more hours. Between Thursday night and Friday night, I had produced 57 solid pages of notes on hundreds of pages of material that I had read. It was pretty brutal. So at 9:52 PM, I sent my bibliographic data to the group member responsible for organizing that. But I wasn't done. Over the next half-hour, I had to condense the important findings on my topic itself (Melchizedek) down to five PowerPoint slides. I mainly based it on the first book I'd read (Horton's Melchizedek Tradition), but with plenty of counterpoints and alternatives from the other material. Unfortunately I had neither the space nor the competence to include anything about Melchizedek in Hebrews, which is even more controverted. So I submitted that at 10:37 PM... and my part was at last done.
Anyway, the rest of my night I did my best to relax, though I got some unpleasant news about someone close to me who had betrayed me rather severely. Won't get into the details here, for her sake. I was ultimately up until around 1 or 2 AM, catching up on some fun things on the Internet I'd missed during my intense study session.
So then I got to sleep for a while, but this morning has not been well. (Oh, have I mentioned that I never heard back about that doctor appointment? Yeah, kind of need that.) I'm not sure whether I can blame diarrhea on my illness, but there were a few hours there that were nonstop... activity. My throat has been killin' me since last night. Apparently any seeming recovery yesterday was just the calm before the storm. I sound absolutely horrible. When I finally resumed my rest around 10 AM, I figured I'd sleep 'til maybe noon. Wrong. Try 4:15 PM. Whatever I've got is really beating me up. I'm still fatigued, I have a headache, and I feel other things wrong with me that I can't even identify. Ugh. Thankfully tomorrow's Sunday, which is a walk-in day at the clinic, my neighbor assures me. After church (if I go and risk exposing those poor people to whatever I've got), I can drive over to the Nicholasville branch of the clinic and see about getting taken care of.
No comments:
Post a Comment