September 21, 2009
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And finally, after nearly 12 hours of traipsing around a gnat infested campus accomplishing nothing in particular, I'm back home. I'm really relieved to at long last take a shower and wash all the dead bug nuggets off of my neck and arms. Disgusting. My parents think it might be a signal of the coming apocalypse centered on UIUC. On my way to the last class of the day after avoiding getting any in my bodily orifices, two suddenly in seeming perfect unison fly directly into my eyes. I hurried to the building and immediately to the bathroom only to see that one of them was dead and stuck in the lower lid of my left eye. I flushed my eyes with water while screaming like a complete fool until finally its little nasty body was washed away down the drain. Oh my god please just bring the temperature down to about 40 degrees and kill all these little mother fuckers.
Anyway, I'm not going to talk any more about the overwhelming amount of either neutral or shitty stuff that happened today and instead focus on the enjoyable things because it's far healthier.
1. We gained another (might I add hardworking) member for a group in one of my classes. She's a fun person and also very motivated, so I'm sure that will make future work easier, especially since our next task is to produce a well thought out paper.
2. I attended a group meeting for one of my prospective research advisers and found it completely innocuous. I could certainly stand presenting my work in that kind of environment and am happy that I was not somehow disappointed.
3. Another prospective group had a friendly lunch today and I went along to see them in a nonprofessional environment. They were all really enjoyable to talk to and I found the group dynamic to be just want I am looking for in a future group. The professor is a vegetarian, so we went to this little hole in the wall place and it was fantastic and right next to the buildings in which I have most of my classes. Even if I don't join her group I'll have to ask her more about being a vegetarian since I'm considering it myself.
4. I got on the scale this evening and was greeted with a pleasant surprise. Today I ate a falafel sandwich in a pita with a quinoa tabbouleh, a small assorted vegetable salad with almonds, one of those little cheese rounds in wax, and four Oreos and the scale suggests the results of a single day of healthy eating are a weight loss of three pounds. I can believe that what with the horrible stress eating I've been undertaking recently. Yesterday I massively overate just because I felt crappy and today I didn't allow myself to do that because it's pretty scary in general.
I'm looking forward to Thursday because on Thursdays I get to daydream.
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