Nullification in 2017

I can feel it’ll be one of those sleepless nights. Just a feeling. We had the “Mozzarella and Margaritas” party that some friends hosted earlier, that was super fun. I could just tell on the drive home that I won’t be sleeping much. A good night to update. Also, my stomach is imploding. I’m pretty sure you’re not supposed to eat dairy when you’re sick, and I’ve kind of only been doing that. Whoops.

I have been sleeping a lot this week. I went down to Medford last weekend, but otherwise I’ve mostly been in bed. I keep getting sick. This week was the third week in a row, and definitely the worst. I think I had been sick last time I updated? So basically all since then, I’ve also been sick. I don’t understand it…I still had a lingering cough when I went down to Medford last Thursday, and by that Sunday it was mostly better. It’s like as soon as I got back to the apartment, it regenerated. I got congested again, I’ve had stomach pains occasionally, some mornings my abs have been sore as if I worked out, but I think it was from coughing during the night. Do you cough when you sleep? Is that a thing? I’ve learned not to take any more classes at 9 AM. Lately I haven’t been able to sleep until 5 or 6 AM anyway, but still, it wouldn’t be good for the future.

So I haven’t been working much this month, and the last 2-3 weeks of classes have mostly been missed. I did go in for a math exam Wednesday. Several times I felt like I couldn’t breathe. I didn’t want to open my mouth, because I knew I’d have a loud-ass coughing fit. Not ideal at any time, also not during an exam. I’ve just been sleeping, playing Persona 4 and 5, and drinking a metric fuckton of orange juice. Also eating Popeye’s chicken? Somehow that became SUPER appealing this week.

I think I’m almost over it for good, but I’m probably going to have to drop my Computer Science class. Again. There’s a big project due today, a quiz, a lab, and there’s a midterm quiz Tuesday as well as a proficiency coding test. Not being there twice a week for the explanations in-class is a killer. I think I can salvage math, and boxing and tennis don’t really matter. The CS classes are really what I need, so this is another setback. I’ll just have to make the most of it and study up during the rest of the term. Honestly, I may have slacked off even if I could focus. In fact, I know I could have. Time management and procrastination are things I’ve always struggled with, and it doesn’t get easier with age.

I also got pulled over a couple weekends ago for speeding. First time ever. I shouldn’t have been out that late. Shouldn’t have happened at all. There’s this super weird/insane chick I hung with a couple times, and she called needing a ride home. I gave her and her brother a ride home, headed home, and then she texted me because he forgot his phone in my car. Ugh. Should’ve waited til the next morning, since it was like 3AM by then, but I headed out and I guess didn’t slow down fast enough when it went from 45 to 35. I have a court date next month, not sure what will happen. If it goes on my record, that may be it for Lyft driving. They’re pretty strict.

The only really good thing that’s happened lately is that my tax returns were great. I expected to owe money, instead I got way more back than I could have hoped for. I just got my federal, which was 3K-ish, and I’m still waiting for the federal, which is a few hundred. Very timely, since I’ve been sick and haven’t worked much this month. I’m also going to try to head down to Medford and trade my car in next month. It keeps having problems and is just a shitty car anyway.

I need to get a haircut tomorrow. The stuff on top is actually mostly down to my chin, which is the longest it’s been. I hated it for a while, but wanted to grow it, and a couple months ago finally grasped the very basic idea of getting the sides and back cut short and keeping the top stuff. So I just need to get that stuff trimmed. Maybe I’ll take a picture. It’s purple, though it’s fading, so I’ll probably dye it again soon. One of the perks of not having a real job I suppose.

Yeah, that’s been this month mostly. Feeling crappy and playing way too many video games. I probably went a bit nuts when I got my school loans and cleared out my Amazon credit card. I bought Persona 5, Persona 4 Dancing All Night(actually not terrible, but certainly a fanboy purchase), some other cheap PS4 games, and a portable hard drive for my PS4. It has a 500GB hard drive, but that’s like 8 games these days. It’s nuts. Why is there so much shit installed on the hard drive when Blu-Rays hold so much data? Anyway, now I can have all my games installed. Hopefully I’ll stay busy enough to not have time to play them. Once I’m healthy again, I need to get back to getting back in shape. I also gotta brush up on Japanese so I’ll be ready for the second-year classes in Fall, and learn coding stuff. I certainly shouldn’t be playing video games, but I know myself too well.