Wednesday, October 20, 2010

So I know I'll be hunting high and low

I'm having a day where I just can't seem to figure out what I'm feeling. I shouldn't say that I've been feeling bi-polar, because I've been a little bit more sad and depressed than happy. I'm not sure why I'm feeling that way, it's just one of those days, and nothing seems to be putting me in a good mood.
It's one of those days where I'd like to just quit school, because it literally brought nothing good into my day.
I'm currently attributing it to the fact that I have a programming assignment due tomorrow at midnight, and I'm having a hard time concentrating on it. I'd forgotten how stressful it is to have projects that are more mentally taxing than physically. Art projects have such easier solutions, and better ones, and ones that you can create yourself, not that you have to read in a book. I admire the people who are really smart in math and science, but I'm glad I'm not one of them. Usually. Now is a time that I wish I was one of them, though, so this assignment would just...come to me.
I'm also really frustrated at math. My teacher constantly is changing the schedule of when we meet, because it's supposed to be four days a week, but then we've been having increasingly more "independant study hours" where we don't meet and are expected to use the time to study on our own (although, I seriously hope my professor isn't expecting that we actually get up at nine to study on our own, if like me, you don't have another class until later). But the point is, he keeps changing the schedule, and sending out new ones, so I have all of these dates written down that we're not meeting, and then I have to change them, and it gets confusing, and it hasn't really been a huge issue until today, when we originally didn't have class, and I didn't see it on the schedule, so I didn't change it on my calendar, and I missed class, because I thought we didn't have it. I blame myself 75% for not double-checking, but I blame him the rest, because he needs to QUIT CHANGING the schedule. I'm already feeling extremely disorganized right now, he's just making it way worse.
I think honestly the most amount of frustration is coming from the fact that I CAN'T FOCUS on anything these days. I keep getting distracted. I literally can't help it. I can't turn a problem into an answer, I can't write in Java syntax, I can't sketch logos, and I can't paint for long periods of time. I can't do anything. I'm getting enough sleep, I'm eating enough, I just. can't. focus. I think it has something to be overstimulated. Listening to music, watching movies, tv, talking to people, it all sticks with me too much. I think I have ADD. And I don't just say that in a casual way, I'm not just doing random self-diagnosing, but I think I've had it for awhile. Focusing has never been my forte. And honestly, it's at the root of every issue I'm currently having.

Monday, October 18, 2010

Sweet and Tender Hooligan

I don't write blog entries for anyone else but myself, so practice patience people.

It was my birthday a week ago, and it was awesome. The entire week worked out so that I really didn't have much if any homework to speak of, and I used the chance to catch up on my instant queue. I went home last weekend and hung out with Jessica, Tianna and Lizzie. We went to Joe's Garage, just Tianna, Jessica and I, Lizzie was working, and it was reeealy good. And they gave me a gap GC which they all pitched in for so it was a LOT holla (Maddi also got me a gap card, which is good because now I can buy clothes, even though I'm quite poor). I also saw family on saturday night for birthday celebrations which was all good, after much controversy that was had about the fact that I went vegetarian (just for the month, but also semi-permanently because I gave up eating meat at the commons and north point dining at school, because I deemed it kinda sketchy), and everyone wanted meat, and I was all like, no ways man, suck it up, you can stand to not eat meat for one meal of your life, and everyone was being stupid but I won out in the end.
And birthday week included BACK TO THE FUTURE AS THE FREE MOVIE on Monday night because it was Homecoming week, and "Stout to the Future" was the theme, Beth and Krista baking me a cake, and going to Jeff's pizza on my actual birthday with Maddi, and then going to Zanzibar restaurant on friday with Beth and Tegan (where they gave me a french press, which, for those who know, I've been scouring the earth for!) Maddi and I had a fun and quiet weekend other than that "going" to the rugby field (for ze homecoming-ness of it) and going to los cabos, dyeing her hair, watching dirty dancing, jimmy johns, more dirty dancing, harry potter and going to bed early.
All in all, it was an excellent week.