Indiana

I’ve been sitting on the floor of the lounge in the basement of my dorm studying and, obviously, typing this since 7 AM. Last night we had seniors from high school who are coming to NYU next year staying in my dorm so I was up til 2 AM. Normally five hours of sleep would not be anywhere near enough sleep but seeing as that is more than I’ve gotten in one night for the last two months, I’m feeling good. I have a lot of energy today, which is good. I’ll need it. I seem to have more work due next week than I am capable of completing. Plus I have to do all the things they expect of me for outside of class. It’s just a lot to wrap my head around. Normally I’d be freaking out, but I feel really calm. “After all we’re only human.” I have stopped trying to comprehend the load I have to tackle and just dived right into it. Taking ample breaks along the way, of course. I haven’t really gotten much accomplished, but I feel like I have so it keeps me going. We’ll see how the rest of this week turns out for me. We’ll see if what I intend to do is actually accomplished. “All these ups and downs, they trip up our good intentions, nobody said this was an easy ride.”

As I was sitting down here this guy came in and asked me if he could run around the room. I wanted to ask him why he wasn’t running outside when it is finally not raining, but I just let him do what he needed to do. It was so odd to see someone run in circles around you while you are trying to study. But he was only there for fifteen minutes. Life in a NYC dorm! No place to be alone. Ever. Even at 7AM.

So now I must get back to work. I might include a picture later in the week of some really awesome orchids I saw being sold on the street in Union Square. If I have time! The song lyrics were from Jon McLaughlin's Human, by the way.