February 5 – February 11

This week started off with an ominous Superbowl. I went to the gym after work and ran my first 5K distance. Yay! Then I left the gym, looking forward to a nice night at home by myself with Netflix and homework, and found myself padlocked into my Boston-school’s residential campus.

Trapped.

I had to chase down a security guard.

And then the Patriots lost.

And then I had to write a paper and I got sick.

On Thursday night, I took some CVS-brand Nyquil and I pretty much didn’t wake up at all the next day. I mean, I got out of bed, but I felt like the walking dead. I had a Starbucks Doubleshot at 8:30 a.m., an iced coffee at 10 a.m., and half an energy drink at 3:00… and nothing. NOTHING. It was brutal.

 

My weekend was not much more restful. On Saturday night, my domestic-disturbance prone neighbor decided to lock her boyfriend out of the bedroom at 3:30 a.m., and he proceeded to pound on the bedroom door for twenty minutes, then go outside and lay on her door buzzer (which I can hear perfectly). Then come back inside and resume arguing.

I woke up still sick, running on little sleep, headed to work for 6 hours, and oh, that paper!

Urgh. Urgh. Urgh.

I’m having higher hopes for this week. I really am. More blogging. Less stress. More sleep. Less illness. That could be the Sudafed talking, though. I love Sudafed!!

 

Reading:

• The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton
• Pearl by Jo Knowles

Listening to:

• Will Grayson, Will Grayson on audio, which I’m definitely digging.
• On Saturday, I was left alone in the apartment to work on my paper. Needless to say, a lot of Broadway occurred…

Watching:

• The Boy and I finally watched that Temple Grandin HBO movie! So good!
• Any Elizabeth Warren fans out there? I threw on Maxed Out, this documentary about America’s credit crisis on Netflix, and SUPRISE! She’s pretty much the star of the show. Also: don’t go into credit card debt because you might kill yourself and your family will still have to pay your debts/receive offers for additional credit cards in your name for the rest of their lives and it will just be sad, sad stuff.
• More HIMYM. My two favorite episodes, currently: The one when Barney runs the New York marathon and of course, Swarley.