Warning: Sick People!

Everyone in our apartment is sick! Stay away! Or actually, Erin is not sick... YET! But she was gone this weekend, and her sister was sick, so she might be in the early stages of it.

JonMarke has been coughing up a lung for a little more than a week now, and still refuses to see the doctor. He seems to be a bit better though. Doug got sick Friday afternoon with apparently the same thing JonMarke had, but Erin had already escaped one hour earlier. And then Saturday morning I went from completely fine to feeling like I was dying within the space of about fifteen minutes. I could feel the sore throat coming on, and then ten minutes later I didn't even want to breathe it hurt so bad.

Unfortunately the NYU application was due the next night, but I wanted to get it done. Luckily, the essays were pretty much ready, so I submitted the application and then went to bed at like 9pm and didn't wake up until noon on Sunday. Also luckily, I had mostly written the term paper that was due today at 11am, and had only left a basic concluding paragraph that still needed to be written. And, no one wanted to work over the weekend so we did the group project that is due on Tuesday after class on Friday. So that just needed to be put together into one document. So I spent the weekend in sweatpants and a sweatshirt watching TV, but it was all ok because I got my homework done in advance.

And actually, I woke up this morning feeling pretty crappy, but now my sore throat is mostly gone and I just feel all sorts of stuffed up and headache-y. Maybe it'll be gone tomorrow. (But I'll still have to fend off JonMarke and Doug's long-lasting cough stuff. Bleh.)

The semester is still relaxing though. I have a 6 page Spanish paper, a 10 page Spanish paper, a final report for Strategic Management, and a few final tests, and that's basically it! The two papers I can easily get done during Thanksgiving break (which thankfully is next week!) and the rest of it can be done anytime before the last day of finals, December 17th. I've got tons of time.

I've gotta get all my stuff packed up and shipped home over break too, so that hopefully there is very little to do when my parents show up for graduation!

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Now it's relaxing!

So I finally got around to having a relaxing semester! Every year I think "Oh this semester will be fine, I only have such and such classes, and two of them are such and such, and the first one starts at 11am, etc" but then I'm always wrong. There is always something or another that I just completely didn't expect or plan for and somehow taking six classes is actually stressful!

Well I did it again at the beginning of this semester. I thought "I only have four classes, only one on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and it starts at 11. This semester will be cake!" Well I forgot about grad school apps, and of course those were insane! But, I've gotten to the point in the semester where I'm more than halfway done with grad school apps, and my classes are actually really easy this semester. So while all of my friends are freaking out ("We only have three weeks of class left!") I'm actually feeling pretty relaxed.

I'm almost done with my third application, which is due November 15, and then I just have one more to do, but it's not due until January 6, so I've got time. The most stressful thing I have to do right now is figure out how to get everything I own from Tulsa to California before I leave here for good on December 20th! Luckily my parents will be coming out for graduation so we'll have six suitcases worth of space to put stuff in. But that doesn't help for things like my mini fridge and furniture. That stuff will probably just have to go to a good home here in Tulsa.

And then I get to re-move all of that stuff across the country to either Chicago, New York, or Boston at the end of the summer so that we can go to grad school. Whee! But that's stress for another time. Right now, I don't have to deal with it. And it's been in the mid-70's all week, so I'm happy!

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