So Wednesday morning, Mum and I set off before 7 to the local surgical hospital to have some burly Grace T tubes put in my ears. I went in and got set up and waited for a while until they were ready to do the surgery — and then I woke up and it was all over. I was there under 3 hours, all told, and we had breakfast afterward.
At noon I had my first class of the new semester — geology lecture. While I could hear much better after my surgery I must have been a bit out of it still because I wrote down that the first two quizzes were due before class today, and completely spaced it. On Thursday I had three classes — scripture as literature, anthropological theory and cultural resource management. All of those are heavy reading, and seminar classes where we will discuss the ideas and materials as a group — which should be interesting, rather than a regular lecture.
But that leads to today, where I had geology again and discovered that I’m behind in the very first week, which kind of sucked. I don’t lose any points or anything, and I will sort things out on Sunday for next week, but it made me feel more out of my depth than usual.
I also talked to my therapist and it was — less than satisfactory. He’s a great guy, but he’s been a little off lately, and today felt rushed and kind of going through the motions rather than working on anything of import. I am feeling a little more myself now with all the meds balanced out, but until things are sorted with trump and Biden is properly installed in his office and things start going back to normal, I’m still probably going to be anxious.
I did get my tuition paid, my errands done, zoomed services, lit candles, started cholent, groceries put away, recycled the bottles and boxes — so I feel like I got something done at least. I’ll get to the vacuuming on Sunday.
I need to run to the library on Sunday as well — I have some books and audio plays that need to be returned, and I want to get some more of one of the series I read. I don’t know how much time I will have for pleasure reading with my schedule this semester, but I would at least have the option to read for pleasure.
So, yeah. TL;DR — Disgusting things coming out of both ears but I can hear better, first week of classes and I’m already behind, feel like I could use a breakthrough, and the 20th needs to hurry the fuck up. School is thankfully online this semester for me completely, so I can focus on my studies without distractions from other students and all that — it really helped last semester. I have been loading benchmarks into Habitica to keep me on schedule and I think I have at least the first part of the semester covered.
So here’s to a quiet Shabbat and I’ll see you all Saturday night after it’s all over. What’s your FP?