Sleep deprived and clawing at what little gray matter I have

Yea, I'm tired. After taking and barely passing two exams last week with an A and a B, I have just taken another test today. Tomorrow there will be an even harder exam, and then yet another one for Friday.

On top of that, I still have about fifty to sixty homework questions to finish by next Thursday when I will also be taking another exam.

From here on out, there will be at least one exam every week.

And I have a cold. It was kind of like "Hey, you have five plus exams to take in the coming week or two, but we don't think you're miserable enough. Here, have a cold. Enjoy. No returns, no refunds. But you have to keep it until you're done being stressed out. This is how we build strength in our future."

Yea. Whatever. Now I'm just delusional.

At least I'm keeping up with a few of my classes pretty well. Hematology and Blood Banking are being awfully good to me. Chemistry is a give or take, depending on how well I can manage to understand/memorize the class lecture. Molecular Diagnostics is a lost cause, so I'm just going to have to do what I can to "know everything" and then wing it. As for Lab Management, there are a lot of common sense things that could simply be derived from a real work place-- I think it'll be fine. Serology is going to be strenuous-- I can already feel it, because of the homework and all the studying I don't know how to do.

So anyway, maybe I should stop slacking off in class and actually pay attention. Not that I can right now. My nose is stuffed, my chest is congested, and my throat is a bit itchy, scratchy sore. My head is fuzzy and my muscles ache like heck. And now I'm hungry as well.

Okay, so after this bout of drama, I think I'll mellow out a bit. I've got lots of studying to do tonight, and I promised a date with one of my best friends who I've been ignoring for three weeks, probably, because of all of my classes. She thinks I died, but I assured her that I'm not that lucky right now since it seems more fun to make me miserable with the inability to breath, think, sleep, or even really see anything.

Voices echo in my head, though I'm not so sure that it has to do with this cold...

And I'm done ranting.

We're Doomed

I'm an Idiot @ xkcd.com
So this is the technologically advanced world that we live in.

I'm a little worried for the future as it seems to be going on a steady down hill, but the first priority of life is that we learn how to survive for ourselves. This is my goal starting from this year and on, because I don't know how best to help make a difference to help the rest of the world except for keeping my half-assed two cents to myself.

But anyway, life still happens.

Someone Help Me

I need the perfect remedy to stop falling asleep in class. It just never fails that falling asleep during class happens. And when I least expect it, the damn "falling asleep in class" problem hits me over the head-- then I start nodding, my eyes start drooping, my entire body slumps, and then the next thing I know, I'm drifting in and out of sleep.

I've been trying not to indulge anymore in gourmet coffee a la Starbucks because of the expense and the high calorie intake, but I have a feeling I may have to start consuming my morning shot of caffeine again. I can't stand the taste of coffee and the only way for me to drink coffee is to drink it from Starbucks. I'm not being superficial or anything, this is just the way it happened. It's either that or I stock up on Mountain Dew, and I'm not about to do that either cause I hate the taste of Mountain Dew.

The only other way for me to stay awake in class is... well, it's doing this. I'm currently paying attention to typing out this SOS blog post and I'm not paying attention in class.

Somehow, I don't think this is a good idea either.

Interesting and disturbing and more...

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Online Communities -- xkcd.com

Sometimes this is what I wonder about our world with simple online communications. Such an interesting way to put it.

In other news, Maeven has finally updated the next chapter and it seems that more action will be occuring. The story is only progressing and getting better and better. And hopefully, with more story stimulating ideas, I can also continue on my goal of having something posted on the internet to share with the reading community out there.