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October 18, 2004

Quiet.

I'm sitting in an empty classroom right now trying to get a little bit of peace and quiet before my Sociocultural Issues in Health and Illness Class starts. This class has been quite unengaging so far, even though I made the decision to stay in it because it looked like I would be learning and experiencing a lot. Remind me that when I make decisions like this from now on, I need to think about what I will be feeling like 5 weeks into the term. It usually ain't pretty. I usually just want to go home and take a nap.

Things have been so uneventful thus far, in all of my classes. The emotional experiences (watching a cesarean section or holding the hand of the wife of someone who is transitioning into death) are wild, but most of the days just seem to blur together in monotony. There is no routine, no steady schedule that I have to stick to, and it feels almost flat.

Or maybe it's just me who is flat.

I'm reading a good book right now, though, called Out by Natsuo Kirino. It's a contemporary Japanese mystery and damn it's good. But even less of a mystery than it is a commentary on what happens to people when life beats them down.

It's starting to get not so quiet in here....

Posted by missfitsandstarts at October 18, 2004 12:56 PM

Comments

I hope things liven up for you soon. Do you have any time to squeeze in some fun to break out of the flatness of things?

Posted by: sk8RN at October 23, 2004 04:27 PM

Tell me about it. I'm back in school to and am barely dredging up the energy to write all these damn papers. Let's hope things start to look up for the both of us.

Posted by: Mia at October 23, 2004 04:28 PM