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I slept last night! For, like, eight and a half hours! The nurse practitioner at the student health center prescribed me some Ambien (along with a billion warnings about avoiding addiction, so yes, I know, I'll be careful), and it woooorked. Thank god. I also scheduled an appointment for counselling, since they offer a certain number of free counselling sessions per year and it is becoming steadily more obvious that something is the fuck wrong with me if my mind is so fired up at night that it's screwing up my sleep so badly.

If I'm really lucky, I might even be able to give that presentation tomorrow that I've had to put off twice already because of this stupid insomnia. Which my professor has been very understanding about, but I feel like a jerk anyway. Important notice if you attend school of any kind: Do not get insomnia near the end of the semester! It will fuck your scholastic shit up!

In other news, since I feel like I should tell you guys about something other than how my life sucks lately because I can't sleep, I registered for my fall classes today! Which officially turns my four-year degree into an at-least-five-year degree, but whatever, these things happen. I'm in no hurry to graduate anyway. Being a student beats the shit out of being in the real grown-up world.

But anyway! I'm going to take an English class on WWI (studying it via literature, obvs); a class called Oral Interpretation that is basically learning how to read stuff out loud without being boring, a skill I could stand to hone, in search of the ever-elusive Fine Arts credit; a History class on early Germany taught by that History professor I like so much; and a senior seminar (another requirement) called Aphra Behn and the Libertine Tradition, which I don't know exactly what that is (all I know about libertine stuff I learned from the movie Libertine, most of which I have forgotten by now anyway) but it sounds awesome. AND they're all afternoon classes like I had last semester, which will help a lot with keeping a more consistent sleep pattern than I've had this semester.

So that's what's on my mind today. Now I have to go hit the laundromat; I had to wear Laundry Day clothes to campus today because I was too tired over the weekend to face doing laundry. If nothing else, I'm learning a thing or two about getting shit done when I feel good enough to not worry about counting spoons.

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APHRA BEHN CLASS. WWI CLASS. How are your seminars so awesome?

I get lucky! I've taken some great classes here.

I about wet myself with glee when I saw the WWI class listed. It does not, as my WWI&II prof pointed out last semester, get much attention these days; it's totes overshadowed by WWII (he did not say "totes"), which makes sense, but still! It's a really interesting period of history in its own right and I am stoked to take a class focused on it.

YAY SLEEP!

I don't know much about Aphra Ben aside from a vague feeling she's awesome.

So much yay. It was a great relief.

I missed like five interesting EPs on Milliways because I wasn't up for tagging them, too. Timing FAIL. (Life, it is hard.)

Waugh, I hate that, when interesting things are happening and I just don't have the brain power.

woop! that sounds like a satisfying amount of sleep.

I'm so jealous of the variety in American education, that sounds like an amazing course. I love Aphra Behn and the Restoration etc.

It's a bit longer than I usually sleep, but no surprises there, considering.

I think I've had a discussion on that subject before - you guys have kind of a narrower range, right?

I'm thinking I should try Ambien now . . . I didn't get to sleep today until, like, 12 pm. :/

Yeeeah, that fails. It might be good for you to have a chat with your doctor about resetting your sleep cycle, because damn.

YAY SLEEP!!!

I'm glad you finally got some sleep!

CONGRATULATIONS ON...um... sleeping I guess? ANYWAY, YAY SLEEP (I myself finally managed to sleep after two days of nothing last night, it felt heavenly and beautiful)

I love hearing about other people's studies, it makes me feel all excited for you and ~hopeful that I'll be able to do my own one day (just need to get my shit TOGETHER, and whatnot first) ^^