what a motherfucking morning
i woke up at 9:10 for a 9:00 chemistry exam.
it feels like things like that just need to be said, stated up front for a more dramatic effect. did i mention this is my first exam in college? last night, instead of studying, i sorted through soccer pics for the ogb and watched airplane! in luter. this isnt really because i was being stupid, just that i was per well comfortable with the material and it wasnt bothering me. true, when i got back in my room at 1:30 this morning, i looked over my notes. and i figured i was fine. what i didnt figure on was being fifteen minutes late for a fifty minute exam.
i was confused. really i was. the first thing i do whenever i wake up is look across the room to check the clock on the front of the microwave. its usually either four minutes fast or on time. i set it yesterday so i think it was right today. well it takes a second for information like "9:10" to seep through the fog into your brain. when you have been awake for 5 seconds anway. i dont even think i got an adrenal rush right there, actually the first thing i wondered was if my alarm went off or not. well i looked down at the foot of my bed and the alarm was set... did i set alarm 2 (for 9:20) or alarm 1 (for 8:20)? i checked and it was indeed the correct alarm. what the fuck? it was about this time that i heard the hissing.
its funny how things so minor as little background noises can be blocked out when bigger things are at hand. come to think of it, i really should have been getting dressed by now but i wasnt really in the right state of mind to make such decisions. investigate now, take the exam later. that hissing sound was white noise. the alarm function on my clock has two little slide tabs for two different alarms. for each, there are three positions: off, radio, and beep. i have been using beep all year, just sliding it all the way down. well aparently last night i picked the wrong alarm but, in my haste to sleep, i popped it into 'radio' and since i havent even listened to the radio since i got here - and happened to hit the tuner last night anyway - it wasnt set on a radio station. so, at 8:20 this morning, my alarm came on... to a pleasant background white noise. i think it helps most people sleep. it worked for me.
turns out the exam wasnt so bad. its just that im so bad at this college thing. i got through most of the exam in the time i got and i think that if i got everything right - and i might have - i would get something like an 89. which is good. course we got out five minutes late cause he let us work a little so i realized i had five minutes to walk across campus to french. wonderful. i really wasnt in the mood. in french, however, we got picked into groups to do some work. this isnt out of the ordinary. our teacher likes to mix things up a little every now and then. by the time she got to our corner of the room, she asked this pretty sorority girl which of us two guys on the front row she would like to partner with. i was pretty disappointed with this because, as you may well know, i hadnt showered or brushed my teeth or even tried to look decent. she, however, remembered my name and not the other kid's. so i got to work with her. {ugh, brooks, dont make this sound like the cheerleader and the chess dork, this isnt at all like that} well i had never met her but during the work we got to talking and it turns out the lived in my same dorm and floor last year. she was friends with my ra too... and she was making cookies today for her sorority friend's 20th birthday. said she would drop by and give us some too. that makes me happy.
so these things happen all the time. stressful and wonderful and relaxing {i came back to the dorm and took a nice shower and now im sitting here writing} and everything else it could be. im going to unc tonight to visit some friends. there is an ugly car out on the mag quad people are paying to hit with sledgehammers. homecoming is tomorrow. i may not be that good at this college thing but at least i am enjoying most of it.
it feels like things like that just need to be said, stated up front for a more dramatic effect. did i mention this is my first exam in college? last night, instead of studying, i sorted through soccer pics for the ogb and watched airplane! in luter. this isnt really because i was being stupid, just that i was per well comfortable with the material and it wasnt bothering me. true, when i got back in my room at 1:30 this morning, i looked over my notes. and i figured i was fine. what i didnt figure on was being fifteen minutes late for a fifty minute exam.
i was confused. really i was. the first thing i do whenever i wake up is look across the room to check the clock on the front of the microwave. its usually either four minutes fast or on time. i set it yesterday so i think it was right today. well it takes a second for information like "9:10" to seep through the fog into your brain. when you have been awake for 5 seconds anway. i dont even think i got an adrenal rush right there, actually the first thing i wondered was if my alarm went off or not. well i looked down at the foot of my bed and the alarm was set... did i set alarm 2 (for 9:20) or alarm 1 (for 8:20)? i checked and it was indeed the correct alarm. what the fuck? it was about this time that i heard the hissing.
its funny how things so minor as little background noises can be blocked out when bigger things are at hand. come to think of it, i really should have been getting dressed by now but i wasnt really in the right state of mind to make such decisions. investigate now, take the exam later. that hissing sound was white noise. the alarm function on my clock has two little slide tabs for two different alarms. for each, there are three positions: off, radio, and beep. i have been using beep all year, just sliding it all the way down. well aparently last night i picked the wrong alarm but, in my haste to sleep, i popped it into 'radio' and since i havent even listened to the radio since i got here - and happened to hit the tuner last night anyway - it wasnt set on a radio station. so, at 8:20 this morning, my alarm came on... to a pleasant background white noise. i think it helps most people sleep. it worked for me.
turns out the exam wasnt so bad. its just that im so bad at this college thing. i got through most of the exam in the time i got and i think that if i got everything right - and i might have - i would get something like an 89. which is good. course we got out five minutes late cause he let us work a little so i realized i had five minutes to walk across campus to french. wonderful. i really wasnt in the mood. in french, however, we got picked into groups to do some work. this isnt out of the ordinary. our teacher likes to mix things up a little every now and then. by the time she got to our corner of the room, she asked this pretty sorority girl which of us two guys on the front row she would like to partner with. i was pretty disappointed with this because, as you may well know, i hadnt showered or brushed my teeth or even tried to look decent. she, however, remembered my name and not the other kid's. so i got to work with her. {ugh, brooks, dont make this sound like the cheerleader and the chess dork, this isnt at all like that} well i had never met her but during the work we got to talking and it turns out the lived in my same dorm and floor last year. she was friends with my ra too... and she was making cookies today for her sorority friend's 20th birthday. said she would drop by and give us some too. that makes me happy.
so these things happen all the time. stressful and wonderful and relaxing {i came back to the dorm and took a nice shower and now im sitting here writing} and everything else it could be. im going to unc tonight to visit some friends. there is an ugly car out on the mag quad people are paying to hit with sledgehammers. homecoming is tomorrow. i may not be that good at this college thing but at least i am enjoying most of it.
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