insomnia.

ok, maybe its not quite insomnia. But i stay awake way too late way too often. for example, i have class at 9:30 in the morning and its currently 2:44 am. i just finished my homework for that class. It took me all of 5 minutes to do, but i've been putting it off since 8 p.m. Yet, i havent really done anything to important since 8pm. actually, i havent really done anything at all. Tonight was supposed to be the night i got a full 8 hours, fingers crossed for tomorrow....

the past and the present

wasn't in the best of moods tonight, and couldn't sleep. thought i would read my old xanga entries to cheer myself up. those were some weird days. my world was complete shit on one end, but not so bad on the other nearly the entire way through high school. i was never really happy, but i never hit rock bottom because something always kept me going. I read them and think "man ive grown up a lot since then" and i think about how much i've changed. but in a sense things are still the same. my life is going good, and its going bad. but the bad are details, in the wide scope of things, im pretty happy.

blackout.

last night at roughly 5:17 a.m. the power went out. at first i thought maybe it was only in my room and it would kick back on. nothing is that simple. after a few seconds i wondered into the hallway and one of the guys next to me, and a guy across from me were in the hall as well. the power was out in our whole hallway. eventually we realized the power was out in the entire main quad. i went to bed a little before six.

when i woke up at noon the power was still out. it stayed that way for a while until they got a generator running and now we have lights in the hall and in our rooms, and in some rooms the outlets work. in mine of course, they don't. so here i am with nothing to do. i went to a friends room to get a little charge on my laptop and now i sit in my room writing this. it turns out the power is out elsewhere on campus too and maybe classes will be canceled tomorrow. they have already told us the power wont be fixed until tomorrow.

so yeah, basically it sucks having no power. at least it was kind of cool without the lights. its not a true blackout with lights. its just a lame power outage. i even bought a flashlight and everything to prepare for a true blackout. today i realized how much my life depends on electricity. i have no tv to watch, no x box to play, when the battery on my laptop dies i wont have a computer to use, i dont have a charger for my phone, etc etc etc. the moral of the story; power outages are no fun.