Category: Wellness

Uninspired Procrastination

Post author By musaku
Post date January 11, 2010
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“Write a new blog entry. Clean your refrigerator. Fix your printer. Wash your water bottle. Clean your room. Water your plants. Figure out your taxes. Return your watch.”

Thoughts that go through my head all day and never get done.

It’s one of those times where people have either a “new start, new beginning” mentality or an “alright, let’s do this all again” mentality. I’m one of those people who feels the repetition and never grasped the concept of being excited for the start of something “new” like the beginning of the year or the beginning of a semester. I was quite excited during the summer to be starting something genuinely new – coming to UBC, but honestly, this semester isn’t too different from the last and I feel like I’m just doing everything over again; it’s not something new to me and therefore is not exciting.

Which leaves me where I am now, not too motivated to do anything, yet still not content doing nothing. I’ve just been trying to keep myself occupied in any way I can and hoping that I will become “awake” enough to go on with what I should be doing. The best way I’ve found so far is to play my 360. I didn’t bring it up with me first semester, but I have it here now, so hopefully Modern Warfare 2 and the games I got for Christmas will bring out the energy in me.

10 ways to win my heart <3

Post author By musaku
Post date September 9, 2009
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Dear future husband,

If you wish to make me happy, this is what you can do to make me feel like I’m at home again:

1. Let me use your car – Waiting for a bus/shuttle is a pain sometimes and going up a hill on a bike is not much more fun. (If it’s a dark blue Mustang with white racing stripes, that makes it so much better.)

2. Buy me ice cream – Do you know how expensive ice cream is?! In the SUB, I got an ice cream and it was $4.19! I thought maybe he charged me for two, but it was only one. Luckily this problem has been fixed by the caf’s lower ice cream prices, but…

3. Feed me on my schedule – I’m told the caf is not open past 7 (7 is my normal dinner time), so usually I get hungry before I go to bed, which means I need to keep food in my room all the time. And it better be good food too because I’m not going all the way to the village to get food at midnight by myself XD

4. Get rid of the moths – There are moths in this building. And it is disgusting. End of story. (Especially when you find them in your shower and then on your towel after your shower, followed by them flying frantically around your head.)

5. Send me things – I open my mailbox and there’s nothing in it and it makes me sad. I don’t care if it’s junk mail or a bill, I just like getting mail :)

6. Replace my wall with pillows – The wall next to my bed is more fatal than it looks. The past few nights I’d knock my head against the cement wall, so I put a pillow there. Last night, I was rolling over while half-awake and in my circle to roll over, I slammed my head against the wall, above where the pillow was. I remember saying something like “I can’t go to class today, I have a concussion.”

7. Hold my umbrella while I’m inside – So that I don’t get it out of my backpack, put it in my lap upside-down, and have the water pour out of it so that it looks like I peed myself.

8. Let me pet your dog – I miss my dog! I miss him more than anything really since he can’t Skype as well as others can. I almost feel like I’m attacking dogs when I see them and pet them since I’m just so excited to see them.

9. Help me decorate my dorm room – My mom did a lovely job helping me, but if there’s white space, I still think there’s room for improvement! XD She put a red curtain in my room and a few plants (real and fake), which really made my room feel more homey.

10. Take care of me when I’m sick – Going to the UBC hospital with pneumonia that was supposed to be much better already within the first week or two of arriving in the country is absolutely scary. Thanks Dad for going with me!

Wellness

It’s been a week…

…since you were accepted to the Blog Squad. Where have you been?!

How’s about pneumonia? Or…well I have no other excuses, that’s been about it. Lying in bed, visiting my grandmother with my “I am feeling amazing and I am definitely not sick!” face on, going to the doctor, and watching excellent time wasting game shows has been my life since Saturday.

It’s really quite amazing how long you are entirely content with sleeping when you are feeling terrible and how easy it is to go from being “Okay, seems like I’m getting better now” content to the “OH MY GOD I THINK I HAVE SOMETHING SERIOUS!” panic mode within 10 seconds when you hear “You should go get your blood drawn and a chest x-ray. Oh, and do you need a wheelchair?” For someone who’s never had a chest x-ray or been in a wheelchair, it’s pretty frightening.

But anyways, life is returning back to normal until Sunday when I leave for Vancouver!

And I leave you with my random thought of the day: “There is a cat on my bed. She looks like she could use some pancakes. Or a sundae.”