Day 53: Bah, Schoolwork

So, I made it to classes today. Yay for me. Not yay for my stomach.

I got up really late yesterday, took a nap until midnight, and then did my homework from midnight until six o'clock this morning. At that point, I showered and got ready for my day and so on and so forth.

I wasn't really having problems until I, trying to make this a mostly regular day, took the stairs down to breakfast. One, I was going down, two, it was only for flights, and yet I still got there feeling nauseous. But I ate anyway. And it stayed down, it just wasn't pleasant.

A half hour and eight hundred milligrams of ibuprofen later I was making my slow and steady way to the University. I gave myself a little extra time, and I took it slow, but there's no elevator in the TAFL Center, and the dar is on the third floor. I don't know why stairs suck so much right now, but I was miserable by the time I got there.

Still, I muddled through.

Classes weren't to bad. I couldn't really focus, but I finally performed my skit for media class that's been due for a week, and we had a lecturer about what makes Egypt an Islamic Nation even though there's a freedom of religion clause in the constitution. What I caught was interesting, but I kept zoning out because of either the pain or the pain pills. Ugh.

I skipped lunch to get all my insurance papers together. By that point I wasn't the least bit hungry. Besides, after lunch was the weekly Flagship meeting at the dar and I really didn't fancy a trip back and forth from the dorms. I managed to scan in all of my forms and receipts and E-mail them to a representative of my insurance company. Hopefully he or she will get back to me soon about whether they need anything else from me so I can submit the official claim. The surgery ate up pretty much all of my alloted summer spending money.

Nothing interesting happened at the weekly meeting. There's going to be an end of summer going away party. There are some trips going on this weekend. Etc. etc. I would have liked to participate in some of the trips, but I really don't think I'm up to it. I'm already skipping a visit to Silsila this evening because if I leave the dorm again I'm going to die. Not really. I'm being over-dramatic. But you get the picture.

I took a cat nap after the meeting, went to dinner, came back to my room... and now it's mostly homework. Woohoo. Yet again, I can't seem to get myself motivated, but I have a major essay due tomorrow as well as a bunch of make up work I haven't completed. Bah. Hence the title.

I'm going to go get to that now. Hopefully I get some halfway decent sleep tonight because after today I need it. And that catnap was not enough. I even looked miserable enough that Robyn tried to convince me to go home early. But at that point I only had an hour of class left, so I didn't really see the point. In sha' Allah tomorrow will be better.