A colder day

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Didn’t sleep very well last night because I had to wake up early to prepare myself for today’s physics quiz. I did the thing where I set the alarm real early, and when it goes off I set the alarm later for another hour, and when that one goes off I set the alarm again another hour, until I have alot less time to prepare than I thought I would. In the middle of SPEAC this became a daily ritual, and my roommate even talked to me about it and suggested to not set it every hour but for a longer time since I know that I’m going to do it. But I always convince myself before I go to sleep that I’ll wake up the first time, even though I basically never have, I always say this time is going to be different but it isn’t.It’s funny now that I think about it because I did it basically every night during speac.

Things I did during speac:

For the first couple of weeks, I ate very little food. Very little, like one of the first days I needed a fork to eat with so I went to Buckeye Express and to my surprise the place was open. I went down the stairs and saw the utensil cart just lying there, and I grabbed a fork and took it to my room. Instead of buying and making my own food like I thought I would I broke down and spent $5 everyday buying General Tso’s Chicken from Mark Pi at the Union everyday, and that was the only meal I had. Man was that good! so greasy and spicy mmm. I think there were a couple times later in the year that I bought my own meat and bread and made some peanut butter and jelly sandwiches but I never made enough and always ended up still hungry and unsatisfied. In the middle I started going to Apollo’s every once and awhile too but I stopped because they were so expensive. Nate always tried to talk us into going to the cereal bar, but we never did haha. Staying in class all day meant that I ate less everyday and so lost some weight. The weather turned from warm to burnin hot in the middle and at the end, which I didn’t mind at all since I had lost the weight.

There was one day where all of us decided to go eat at the pizza place across from Morrison. We spent like seven dollars each or something, I split with Nate using our credit cards, and we ended up only getting about 2 slices of pizza. I was really worried about time because I hadn’t finished my kanji or writing homework, but I guess I ended up doing it ok and as the last minute as always. I always did my writing during lunch before class, such a bad way to study. No wonder I never did good on writing days.

I stayed up everynight and woke up around 4 or so in the morning (I really can’t remember now but I just recently changed my morning alarm for speac which had been set for almost a year now about a month ago). I can remember sitting on that couch in the middle room and alternating between it and the desk when I got too uncomfortable.

When I think about speac, I can still feel the heat of that summer, can still imagine going throug the front doors of my dorm building to the left and into the elevator, seeing some triangular drawn monster doodle thing above the numbers, getting off and going down the left hall towards my room. Sometimes the room before mine’s door was open, and I could see the Japanese girl student teacher sitting their looking at her laptop. All I could see of her was the back of her head and her bowl-shaped traditional Japanese girl haircut; which I thought was kinda funny.

I’ll write more about speac and make it a seperate post or something later.