Sick Weekend

Lately I’ve cut down on my caffeine consumption. I drink coffee maybe once a week, and on the other days I usually drink matcha tea flavored milk. It has caffeine in it too, but though I haven’t actually checked how much, I’m certain that it’s less than coffee. Today I tried a special caramel Starbucks coffee, which was kind of disgusting. It went pretty well with my oatmeal though. After I drank it (only 100ml!) I was very shaky for the first half of the morning. Not sure if that was because it was strong, had a lot of sugar, or I’ve just become more sensitive. I’m thinking that in the near future I will revert to drinking tea, but for now I’ll stick to my matcha milk.

I was sick this weekend. That was kind of good because it meant that I didn’t feel guilty about not going to Niigata and doing rice harvesting. It was also bad because it meant that I missed out on some Matsumoto fun, climbing, and it threw off my routine a bit, plus the general misery of feeling sick. However, on Saturday I spent the whole day either sleeping or reading Japanese, so I felt like I was fairly productive. Sunday and Monday (a holiday) I mostly played a city building video game, but by Monday night I decided that this game had some rather silly goals and I lost my motivation to continue playing.

That evening I started re-reading a Star Wars/Harry Potter crossover called The Havoc Side of the Force. It was really good, and I ended up staying up until 3:30 reading it, and continuing in my free time at school the next day as well. Then on Tuesday, I went to sleep at 8. I woke up at 2:30 when there was a loud sound, and spent a miserable hour coughing, sneezing, and blowing my nose, but went to sleep again at 4, so I got a decent amount of sleep. A lot of students at my school are sick, though.

Liberty still hasn’t answered my emails about my admissions. I’m going to try to chat with them tonight, but it’s a last minute effort that probably won’t yield any fruit. Hopefully it won’t make any difference, though—as long as I get my two classes transferred, it doesn’t matter if I don’t get accepted until December.

I was inspired on Friday to look into dancing again. It seems quite difficult, and I’m not sure that I have a place to practice, but I really want to try working on it. First I think I’ll see what I can do just in my room at home, which will mean reorganizing. That’s okay—I feel like my current configuration has worn out its welcome. I really need to do some cleaning, so if I can pull that off on Monday, that would be ideal.