sooo busy

Hey everyone,

So I've been meaning to write for a while, but I have been VERY busy. What with all my classes, rehearsals, and trying to find time to sleep....let's just say there aren't enough hours in the day. And to top it all off, I'm still coughing up a storm and feeling sick-ish, my best friend is in the hospital, and people are constantly asking for my attention.

Let's see...what to talk about? I guess I'll go in order:
Classes-well....a few of them are jokes, but I still have to study a lot on my own. I'm trying to keep up with all the coursework and understand the things that I didn't get in class, but the more I study, the more I feel like a hermit, and I just don't like that feeling. It's nice to have a class like jazz where I get to have my outlet and dance for an hour+ a couple of times a week. Still, I feel like I'm a drone. Just getting to classes, sitting there, and walking to the next one. And I hate feeling like that because I love learning and I want to be excited about all the classes I'm taking.

Rehearsal: They're actually going pretty well. The director is letting us out early a little bit, so we get the opportunity to go home before ungodly hours of the night. I was sent home a couple of nights ago because I felt terrible, but other than that they're actually going pretty well. The show is creepy, but the characters are hilarious. I can't wait to be able to see more and more of the rehearsal process while trying to get ready for my audition next week [eek!]

Sleep: Well, you see, what had happened was....yeah. I have no time to sleep. Even with getting out of rehearsal early I still find myself with tons of things to do both before and after rehearsal. It's probably the biggest reason why I've been sick for so long, but I can't get much more sleep than what I've been getting unless I want to fail college. And I really REALLY don't want to fail college. So I'm sleep deprived which makes me sleepy, which makes me feel like a drone in classes, which makes me not so happy....it's an ongoing cycle.

Sick: So I've been sick for over a week now. When I say sick, I mean that I'm coughing a lot, but the coughing doesn't help whatever my throat needed me to cough for. My throat is killing me and I sound like a man when I talk. It's pretty gross. I have a voice lesson tomorrow and I have no idea how I'm going to get feeling better enough to really sing. I haven't belted all week, like she forbade me to do. [which sucks, btw, because I LOVE belting] We'll see how she feels about me still not going to the doctor this week. :\

Sarah: So....I went to bed at 915pm when I was kicked out of rehearsal a couple of days ago and when I woke up, I had an awesome [not] voicemail from my best friend Sarah telling me that she was in the hospital and that she wanted to see me. What?! [btw, I just sneezed three times.....why am I sneezing so much?! urgh sickness!!] So today I rush over there after my classes [and a shower] and find her looking so sad and weak. Her veins had collapsed because of how dehydrated she'd become since she got back to the US. Are you kidding me?! So they had an IV in her and she said she was feeling better, but she still was very tired and VERY weak. It seemed as though just going to the bathroom took a ton of her energy. The good thing is she's gotten her appetite back. But she's missing her first week of college, she can't eat anything until they figure out what's wrong with her, and she's stuck in bed without many visitors. I got to see her for about an hour and I hope that she's feeling better and better, but it's just a long process and the earliest she'll leave for Furman is this weekend.

People: Well, I told you that I hate feeling like a drone. So no matter how much I have on my plate, I have the urge to be at least somewhat social. My friends want to hang out so I visit them. I might take homework, but at least I feel like I'm interacting with them. Sad, right? I know, but if I want to get anything done, I have to do about 3 things at once. There's just so much to be done and without my nighttimes to do all the extra studying, I am already swamped. And it's only the first full week of classes!

So there's my life in a nutshell right now. I like writing it all out. For now, I don't have to worry about it anymore.

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