September 6, 2012

• Tuesday Sucked...

  Perhaps because it didn't...for a variety of reasons. It ended up with me on the verge of tears or a panic attack. I'm not sure which was going to happen first.

  

  I spent the extended weekend at my parents' lake house. They have air conditioning there, which was WAY better than sleeping in the condo the state it was over the weekend. But, that meant an early start to Tuesday so I could drive the 1.5 hours between there and school, which I could handle under normal circumstances. Tuesday morning, though, I woke up without having a proper night's sleep (not unusual, though, for a law student). During my break, I ran to the new place to make sure that the electricity was turned on. It was. Walking back into school, I ran into a tree and cut my head. It started bleeding.

  I sat through Negotiable Instruments with a paper towel pressed up against my scalp. In typical Trey fashion, it just made everyone uncomfortable.

  By the time class was over Tuesday afternoon, I was EXHAUSTED, not to mentioned injured. Alas, there was much to do, for the electricity was turned on and I had very few items necessary for the maintenance of a household.

  After a couple hours and a hundred bucks in WalMart, I made it to get food and start on my homework at school. After being there for a while, I returned home because I realized I left crucial equipment at home. I couldn't study at home, though, because everything was a disaster. I had to start..cleaning...then I continued cleaning. There were so many dead crickets...and they were everywhere. Inside cabinets. Behind appliances. Under the sink. And they stunk. In fact, the cricket-death smell still lingers and flares up every time I run the dishwasher. >: ( I was doing my best to clean the cabinets so I could at least get the food and dishes put away. It was a futile effort, for I had more-pressing matters.

  I turned to getting my homework finished. There were significant points up for grabs in Land Practice, and a discussion I wasn't yet prepared for in Business Planning. At that point (11:00 pm) I was sweaty, hot, tired, frustrated, confused, injured, overwhelmed and generally hating life. After drawing out a metes and bounds description, I tried to go to bed about 1 AM. Emphasis on "tried."

  My bed wasn't yet put together, and my best efforts didn't change that. Nonetheless, I tried to dress it, during which process I realized that I was missing a pillowcase. The air conditioning wasn't adequately conditioning the air, and it was still 95 degrees outside! Dead crickets lied about the carpet and stayed there because I don't have a vacuum cleaner. I couldn't take a shower because for fear of washing away the lumpy scab on my head. I almost had a break down.

  ...*deep breath*...

  But, Tuesday is now two days behind and slowly receding into the past. My lumpy scalp is slowly dissipating. I'm able to wash my hair now without feeling that I'm going to open a wound. My bed still isn't quite together, but I have a good lead on where the pillow case might be. This weekend, I think I'll be able to move in more of my stuff and finally get a vacuum to get rid of those nasty little arthropods littered throughout my home. While prospects look brighter, Tuesday still sucked.

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