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Mar. 17th, 2005 02:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tylikYesterday bit. But... the quarter's over, and that's good. And not everything about yesterday was bad.
But I'd slept poorly, and didn't have much energy. Watching the other presentations for KR was amusing -- I suspect I still get the "weird project" award, but I definately liked yesterdays projects better than last Thursdays. Went down to the lab, studied classical more. The walked up to the final, during which times my lung decided they hated me, gunked up, and kept me coughing hopelessly for about the first half of the exam.
After all the work I did memorizing the names of the classics, the alternate groupings, the classifications schemes, etc. etc. it did not appear on the test. And the test did not go particularly well. I did my best, but being sick and tired and the way those things cut into my study time is going to show. It probably didn't go as badly as it seemed to at the time, but by the end it had all caught up with me, and I really just wanted to die on the spot. It's not like I'm in danger of really blowing the class, but... it's really annoying that after the work I put into it, getting sick during finals week is likely to cost me. (It also strikes me as ironic that I can take tests in KR while feverish and miserable and ace them, but back in classical... gah.)
And then I went to Chen, and ended up coughing so much I had to sit out.
Despite this, I am getting better, slowly. Yesterday was a bit of a setback, but for finals, what do you do?
This morning I slept in. I usually can't, much, but this morning it was as if every cell in my body yearned, individually, to be closer to the mattress. What a rare pleasure, to laze about an do nothing and not be bored by it. So I'm spending a quiet day around the house. I'll probably start some tomatoes, eventually. I might go so far as to wash some dishes.
I hope next quarter will be better. In some ways it will be less stressful, and I at least don't have any early morning classes, but my schedule isn't going to be any better. If anything, it will be a little worse. This quarter was tough... though it got off to a bad start, and getting sick twice made it a lot harder. I start looking at my schedule, and thinking that perhaps I should prune... but what do I prune? Pruning martial arts is false economy -- I do better when I'm more active rather than less. And the teaching gives me so much. Gaming? It might come to that, but it's not like I spend very much time gaming anyway. I do need some kind of social outlet, though that might not be the most effective. And it's not just all about increased efficiency. This time around, at least when I was sick, I was running into burnout, where it was often more effective to take breaks than to keep studying, because I was beyond the point where more work meant better results.
I hate being there.
But I'd slept poorly, and didn't have much energy. Watching the other presentations for KR was amusing -- I suspect I still get the "weird project" award, but I definately liked yesterdays projects better than last Thursdays. Went down to the lab, studied classical more. The walked up to the final, during which times my lung decided they hated me, gunked up, and kept me coughing hopelessly for about the first half of the exam.
After all the work I did memorizing the names of the classics, the alternate groupings, the classifications schemes, etc. etc. it did not appear on the test. And the test did not go particularly well. I did my best, but being sick and tired and the way those things cut into my study time is going to show. It probably didn't go as badly as it seemed to at the time, but by the end it had all caught up with me, and I really just wanted to die on the spot. It's not like I'm in danger of really blowing the class, but... it's really annoying that after the work I put into it, getting sick during finals week is likely to cost me. (It also strikes me as ironic that I can take tests in KR while feverish and miserable and ace them, but back in classical... gah.)
And then I went to Chen, and ended up coughing so much I had to sit out.
Despite this, I am getting better, slowly. Yesterday was a bit of a setback, but for finals, what do you do?
This morning I slept in. I usually can't, much, but this morning it was as if every cell in my body yearned, individually, to be closer to the mattress. What a rare pleasure, to laze about an do nothing and not be bored by it. So I'm spending a quiet day around the house. I'll probably start some tomatoes, eventually. I might go so far as to wash some dishes.
I hope next quarter will be better. In some ways it will be less stressful, and I at least don't have any early morning classes, but my schedule isn't going to be any better. If anything, it will be a little worse. This quarter was tough... though it got off to a bad start, and getting sick twice made it a lot harder. I start looking at my schedule, and thinking that perhaps I should prune... but what do I prune? Pruning martial arts is false economy -- I do better when I'm more active rather than less. And the teaching gives me so much. Gaming? It might come to that, but it's not like I spend very much time gaming anyway. I do need some kind of social outlet, though that might not be the most effective. And it's not just all about increased efficiency. This time around, at least when I was sick, I was running into burnout, where it was often more effective to take breaks than to keep studying, because I was beyond the point where more work meant better results.
I hate being there.
