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I’ve been so bi-polar today, I almost caught myself by surprise, and that says quite a lot.
Being sleep-deprived and stressed does not help one attain a stable mentality, so I discovered.
I was really tired after a whole weekend of playing games, jumping around, disturbing people playing games, and just having fun in general. It’s a good thing we don’t have these LAN-parties too often, or I’d probably never get anything done during the weekends but play games… At least I got more sleep this time around, last geekend in November, I think I got a total of 10 hours of sleep spread over 3 days…
I left for home on Saturday night and got home at around 4 AM, insanely tired, and jumped straight into bed.
On Sunday I felt bad enough for not training since Thursday, so I dragged my lazy butt to the gym for an hour of spinning with Adrian. It proved once again that exhaustion and training do not go hand-in-hand.
Today was another gray and drab Monday. Urgh, Mondays…
It started off with my oversleeping a whole hour, rushing out the door to my busses that were being late, or too early, getting shoved against the window by some girl who had too many things to carry and reeked of nauseating perfume. Closed my eyes, counted to ten, realised this wasn’t a bad dream, plugged in my music and took out my kindle to shut the rest of the world out.
[I’m usually a rather nice person, I guess Mondays just aren’t my thing.]
But on the bright side, I made it in time for my lecture with 4 minutes to spare!
After school, I ran amuck in town looking for a particular adapter that no one seemed to even understand I was looking for, so that completely made me fall flat on my face, and that was after stomping around town for a little more than an hour.
When I got home there was an e-mail from Yves Rocher. I’d asked them about a gift I was supposed to receive from them, as I’d recruited Piggie to sign up for a membership, and wondered if our order had been misplaced. They confirmed that the order was already dealt with and paid for but that my gift was with the friend I recruited. [Why in world would you send MY gift to my FRIEND’S adress?!]
-And being in the splendid sunny-mood I was in all day, I wrote back, holding back as much anger and malice as I could because it obviously isn’t the end of the world, but seeing as it was a gift voucher and none of us knew it would end up with Piggie and it’s now gone missing……I still got increasingly mad with each word I typed out. I ended up just pointing out and criticizing the company flaws and how utterly thoughtless of them it was…. Etc. etc. [You get the gist]
After dinner, mummy and I drove to some shops for some quick browsing, and we ended up buying me a pink blanket made of the softest most comfortable and cosy material known to me. I am in love with this baby pink blanket!

It all got better in the end. I ordered my adapter from the US instead, I got to take out my agitations in an e-mail to Yves-Rocher, then I screamed about how life was unfair because I had a bad day….And then I got a blanket for it.
My day has involved so many “first world”-problems, and I know it’s a ridiculous thing, so I think I’ll shut my mental pie-hole here and now.
I finished the last book of the Hunger Games trilogy last night.
I had mixed feelings about the ending, but I guess it worked. The last line was a good one though…. And I don’t dare to say too much as I know there’s at least one person reading this who hasn’t finished the books yet.
All in all, I heavily recommend the Hunger Games to people who:
a) Appreciate adventure-like stories
b) Easily get bored with story lines that are ‘slow’
c) Are okay with reading some gory bits. [I still can’t believe these books are for 12-year olds…]
d) Are planning on seeing the movie in March
e) Are currently reading this right now.
…..Now I have to find a new book to read…
I forgot to mention that I’m currently at another Geekend, but a little larger this time round. I think we were around 40 people the last time, now we’re about 150- and it isn’t just computer science [Though the majority of us are computer science…]…
The LAN started last night and goes on until tomorrow afternoon. Back to Team Fortress 2!
Here I am, bright and early…Well 9 AM isn’t that early I guess…
I’m in the newly-renovated part of our building, and I can’t express [nerd-alert] how much I love being in here. It’s quiet for the most part, and if people make too much noise, you can slip away into one of the small rooms that have sliding glass doors…I’ll have to include a picture of that when I’m not being surrounded by people who I don’t know.
The furniture is also in bright brilliant colors, like green, purple, blue and pink. And the small rooms on the sides are surrounded by tinted glass walls in various colors as well.
The atmosphere does contribute some when studying and getting your work done. It definitely never fails at cheering me up.
But for now, here’s me in the quiet room, unfortunately the least colorful part…..

My plans went a little askew anyway.
I ended up waking up at 6:30 on Tuesday morning, giving me 5 minutes to eat breakfast, pack my bag and drive to the gym. Needless to say, I didn’t go- and ended up sleeping in till 8 AM- that wasn’t too bad, if I’m to be honest.
I finished Catching Fire yesterday, and have made my way through a third of Mockingjay.
I definitely understand what the hype about the Hunger Games has been about, they are close to impossible to put down, the events just keep flowing and you have to find out what’s happening next or….Or the world as we know it will implode from never knowing…!
I had no classes today, but still went to school to get some programming done with Sofia. We’re a little stuck on our problems but our lab is tomorrow and we’ll ask for help then.
My evening continued on with my regular spinning and bodybalance classes, and I really gave it my all this week. Subconsciously making up for skipping Tuesday morning’s training session…Most likely.
It’s now 10 PM, but I can’t stop yawning- so I’ll take it as a sign of sleep-deprivation and head off to bed with Mockingjay in my hands. Math at 8 AM tomorrow, sounds fun!
Now that I’m over that little rant I had going on earlier…
I overslept by an entire hour this morning, which is of course, never a good thing. [I seriously need a new alarm clock, the radio is NOT enough]- But despite flinging myself out of bed at 7 AM, I managed to throw on my clothes, pat my face with whatever I could get hold of, throw in my books into my bag and head out the door with 6 minutes to spare.
The bus was of course late, but I was lucky with the next bus I got on that took me to Lund. The driver more or less sped by every stop he could and zoomed my to Lund within 15 minutes when it usually would take 25 minutes or longer. I was fortunate, and I settled in the lecture hall 2 minutes before my maths lecture started.
See, nothing is impossible.
I’m fully-scheduled this week as well, getting busier by the day but I don’t quite mind. It’s nice to have things to fill up your days so you don’t have time to laze around. I honestly think that’s the only way I can get off my lazy butt and actually get things done, to never get the chance to laze around. Except in the evenings. My brain turns into mush after dinner-time… Then I just spend the rest of my night reading and/or sleeping. Ideally, I’d wake up at 5 AM to study, but we all know that isn’t going to happen anytime soon. [New weekly goal perhaps?]
At least I’ve made time for my training:
It took me a while to get it to work, since I have things planned this weekend as well. [More details when the time comes..]
It’s just past 10 PM now and I’m incredibly tired. I think I still have sleep to catch up from Friday night’s late night and measly 4 hours of sleep. I’ll just read a bit of Catching Fire, then I’ll go to sleep. Or so I tell myself. These books are almost impossible to put away…