Saturday, 14 December 2002

FREE!

This is us just minutes after handing the thesis in on Thursday. Happy but tired. But let me start from the beginning…

On Monday after writing the post we took a short nap of 2-3 hours to get at least some sleep. Just when I had fallen asleep I got a call that our theses had already been printed out and we could come anytime the next day to look through the prints and give them our okay to bind them. Yay! Got up in the evening to watch X-Files and some more TV, then play some Rez and other games until 5 in the morning. Got up again at 11 on Tuesday morning, checked the print-outs and waited for them to get bound. Then went to the examination office at our university to hand them in only to find a piece of paper on the door stating that were closed today and that our due date was pushed to Thursday. Great. All the stress for nothing. We spent the rest of the day assembling a CD to go with the paper version of the theses. In the evening we met a friend and played Axis and Allies Europe which was fun even though I was quite tired.

Wednesday morning for some strange reason we woke up at 7 after only 4 hours of sleep. But around 11am we were pretty tired again so we went back to bed for a “short nap”. Woke up at 5:45pm, 15 minutes after the time we had arranged to meet with our advisor at school. Called him to tell we overslept (he found it quite funny) and raced there. Took home some take out pizza afterwards and crashed in front of the TV. I don’t remember what else we did that night but we didn’t go to bed before 6am.

Got up again at 9am on Thursday and went to hand in our theses which worked fine. We took the above picture just after that in front of the main building of our school. You can see that we hadn’t gotten all that much sleep. Spent the rest of the day in town returning books to the library (at the other side of the city), visiting a couple of game stores (yay!), doing some christmas shopping and bought myself some cool new gloves as an early christmas present. Watched a couple of episodes of Sex and the City, CSI and Dark Angel that we didn’t have time to watch earlier in the evening. Went to bed around 3am.

Slept until 4pm today. Eek. My sleep schedule is so totally out of whack at the moment. I hope it’ll normalize itself soon. I have been feeling very strange since Monday. Like I was a totally new me suddenly. That’s the main reason I haven’t been posting. This whole write-up isn’t all that interesting. Reading it again makes me feel like nothing much has happened. But my whole life got turned around from feeling very bad for not working every time I did not work on my thesis (because I had to eat or take a shower or when I watched the news) to being able to do everything I want without having to feel bad about it. It’s strange. Whenever I watch TV now I still have this feeling somewhere deep inside that I shouldn’t be doing this. But it’s slowly beginning to sink in that I am truly done with school now (if nothing gets messed up that is). And I’m feeling very good about this (even though I don’t really look forward to having to go to work every day).

So this is what happened to me since Monday. Today I saw Bowling for Columbine. Fascinating film.

  Posted by Edda at 04:57 CET