November 1st

11/1/2012

I woke up this morning feeling sick, so I got out of bed to tell my maid that I would not be going to school today and then I went back to sleep. At about 9am I got out of bed for the second time to go to the bathroom and eat breakfast. Now, I was feeling very sick. I could barely swallow breakfast before I had to run to the bathroom again. I took medicine and Advil to make the pain go away but I still felt nasty. I took a hot shower in the hopes that it would make me feel a little better... it did. The medicine finally kicked in and I was able to go back to sleep at about 10:30am. I woke up a 3pm feeling sick again. I ate bread for lunch because I couldn't eat anything else. My maid noticed that I was barely eating so she brought soup up to my room. It looked and tasted exactly like gravy and it was delicious. I ate all of it and started looking at colleges. The rest of the day was spent looking at colleges, making decisions and doing applications. I might just decide to go crazy and live the rest of my life in a padded cell because college will be the death of me. The websites are confusing, the applications ask for tons of information that I do not have and I just can't tell the difference between a 'good' school a 'great' school and a 'bad' school. Every website has different rankings and different statistics. The college search did not make me feel any better. I had peanut butter and a banana for dinner, worked on my applications some more and then tried to go to bed. At about 9pm I felt my first earthquake. It was very tiny but I am very glad I wasn't standing up. It still scared me a little. I finally fell asleep thinking about colleges and deadlines and a thousand other things.

11/1/2012 Highlight

As painful as today was, I made some decisions and started the long process of college applications. I am happy to get some of the decisions behind me and start acting.