So today I thought I had a half hour lecture at 3.30 (well, according to my timetable), so not long before I went in I had some Red Bull, knowing that I’d get out before the “need to pee” effect came on.
Turns out it was really a 1.5 hour long lecture, and I ended up sandwiched in the middle of a row with no escape, because it was so damn busy.
So yeah, moral of the story is to be careful with your caffeine consumption.
My Saturday has been such a waste. I forgot how often I got migraines during term-time. I ended up sleeping and puking the day away. The codeine didn’t even do anything bar knock me into a deliriously deep sleep.
I didn’t manage to go out, talk to anyone I haven’t managed to speak to all week or get any uni stuff done. I’m being dramatic, but dammit, I was looking forward to Saturday so much. 
It’s amazing how well focusing on work/uni makes me feel. Sure I’m hollow inside, but being able to block out what hurts feels good. I need to get back into being able to do it urgently.
So alas, I have done all four of my marathons, and here is how I got on…
Game Marathon
Neverwinter Nights (2.5 hours)
Guitar Hero: World Tour (50 mins)
Persona 4 (40 mins)
SimCity 4 (40 mins)
So my game marathon was pretty lame. I started it too late. I’ll start from the morning next time I have one, and hopefully I’ll get some people to do it with me next time too!
Music Marathon
Opeth – My Arms, Your Hearse (last 3 tracks only)
The Used – Artwork
Diablo Swing Orchestra – The Butcher’s Ballroom
City Of Caterpillar – City Of Caterpillar
The Cat Empire – So Many Nights
The Cat Empire – Live on Earth (both discs)
Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown
I Have Clones – Music 2.0
Playlist of random songs (too many to list, though I listened to this playlist for 2-3 hours)
Allister – Last Stop Suburbia
Me First And The Gimmie Gimmies – Ruin Jonny’s Bar Mitzvah
Death From Above 1979 – Heads Up
Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
+44 – When Your Heart Stops Beating
Andrew Jackson Jihad – Only God Can Judge Me Now
Brian Setzer Orchestra – Jump, Jive An’ Wail: The Very Best of The Brian Setzer Orchestra (half the album).
In total I reached about 16 hours before I could take it no more (especially since I had to get up at 8am the next day for a hospital appointment).
Reading
Half of Koji Suzuki’s Spiral
Half of Watchmen
The Bible (lol): Luke 23-25
A small 80 page child’s book by Harry Horse entitled The Last Cowboy
A little of The Venus Conspiracy by Michael Cordy
In total this was probably 7 or 8 hours.
TV/Movies
Watchmen – Director’s cut (just over 3 hours)
House season 3, episode “LOL” (40 mins)
Everybody Hates Chris season 2 episodes 5-13 (3 hours)
Heroes season 4 episode 16 (40 mins)
In total that meant about 7.5 hours. Not very hxc. : (
So yeah, there you go…that’s my marathons done! I hope I can do some again sometime, but unfortunately it won’t be within the immediate future.
…I’m going to make the next few days all about marathons. I’ll do games, music, reading and TV shows/movies. I know most people wouldn’t make the most of things by like…going out, but I’m no social butterfly. It’s gonna be a ball!
So here’s the schedule:
Tuesday (Today): 5-10 hours of video games (that’s not an awful lot, but I’m not one of those people who can obsessively play something for 14 hours straight…plus I have a migraine).
Wednesday: 20 hours of music! This is the must hxc one. I HOPE YOU’RE GONNA DO IT WITH ME, ANDY, TOO.
Thursday: 5-10 hours of reading. This will be either books or graphic novels (and now I’m realising I don’t have a lot less to read…I guess I’ll need to go into the scary big outside land at some point?). 5-10 hours isn’t an awful lot too, I know, but this will be the hardest to me, since I get really sleepy when I read. Caffeine is required!
Friday: 15 hours of movies and TV shows. Perfect opportunity for me to catch up on Heroes and finally watch all the shows people are always telling me to watch. Or maybe I’ll just rewatch Buffy all over again. >.>
On Saturday my Canadian relatives arrive here, and from then on I’m not gonna have the time for fun excesses like these. The course I’m starting is a full 12 months, which is pretty hardcore considering undergrad courses last 9 months, but hey, it costs £4,000, so I’m glad I’m getting my money’s worth.
If anyone wants to join me on any of these “marathons” you’re more than welcome. It’s nice to have company to make us feel less lame. I haven’t started the video game one so it’s gonna lapse well into the early hours now (it’s 8pm at the moment). I’ll tell you how much it kills me tomorrow!
I sure haven’t. All I’ve had to eat today is a few peanuts and half a hot chocolate. My stomach is BURNING.
So I’m doing the most logical thing, I’m getting up and comping online, further pushing my mind away from a sleepy state.
I’d like to blame the horror novel I was reading before bed, but it’s really not the issue. It scared the crap out of me, to be honest, but it’s not bothering me any more. I think this is caused by being inside pretty much doing nothing but laying in bed for a week.
I’ve been stuck inside for a week now with this cursed swine flu. I keep thinking “yeah, OK, I’m fine now”…but I’m not. I feel crap today, and I was kept awake for most of the night coughing. Not a lot of fun. I’m going stir crazy. I want to do things, rather than sitting at home hoping someone online talks to me. It’s frustrating.
On another note, I can’t believe how quickly we seem to be descending into winter now. It’s 12c right now! Last week 20c was annoyingly low. Miserable weather makes miserable Cat more miserable. : (
Talking for the sake of talking. I’m really bored at the moment, and I feel like shit, physically and emotionally. I’m also being irritated by the sound of my sister’s music, and I’m too headachey to listen to my own music. I’m in a very self-pitying mood.
I’ve been ill with swine flu now since Saturday. It was crazy. I got up in the morning and had a sore throat (which oddly kept me awake all night), but I did’t think anything of it. Sore throats happen, and mostly they’re just associted with trivial colds.
Saturday was the day I had planned on going to the Edinburgh festival. I was pretty excited about it, and I wasn’t gonna let some stupid cold ruin it. So I went there, and saw one show before I suddenly started feeling REALLY ill. I got so cold and achey and I desparatly needed to sit down.
I ended up sitting in Starbucks for like an hour and a half, shivering and feeling MASSIVELY sorry for myself. I took some paracetamol, but it didn’t do a whole lot of good. I had to come home early in the end, and did’t get to see the Piccasso exhibition I wanted to see. I’ve been in bed ever since. I”m over the worst now, but God, I have never felt so unwell as I did on Saturday night.
But da schvine flu really isn’t as bad as the media let you believe, and take that from someone with first hand experiance! I’m the first person I know to come down with it, and after 4 days I’m sitting here making a big blog post. My throat hurts, I’m pretty blocked up, my muscles ache a little and I feel very lethargic, but that’s really nothing massive. I think I will get a “I survived swine flu” tshirt.
But moving on from going on and on and on about that, I’ll talk about something else. I’ve went on about having swine flu way too much to everyone I know now. I guess I’ll have made more than a few people think “STFU”. I’M SORRY FOR WHINGING.
In my bedridden boredom I’ve done a few things. Aside from getting pissed off at never having my fucking important and urgent emails replied to (and I’m not gonna bother ranting about that here. No point in getting angry.) I’ve finished TWO books! That’s a big thing for me, you see, because I’m a pretty damn slow reader. Normally I’d take a few weeks on a book at least. I read one within two days. The font was big, but I still saw it as some kind of acehivement (no it wasn’t a children’s book, thank you). One of the books was set in Sweden, and, well, I’m planning on moving there next year. Even though it was a horror and pretty gritty and graphic, it made me want to move there even more! I can’t wait to live in Sweden, dammit! My life feels like one big waiting game at the moment. Do you ever feel like that? I’m sick of waiting on the world. Everything I want involves waiting. Why can’t the world wait on me for a change?
I’m typing really fast right now. WITHOUT MISTAKES. I really must be getting better. It feels like I have energy, though I’m sure if I was to get out of bed I’m be lying here wishing to have a nap within 4 minutes.
ANYWAY, so what else have I done over these past few days? Well, I downloaded a gameboy emulator and decided I’d see what all the fuss about the Final Fantasy games was about. Seemingly, not a lot. I’ve played a few hours of it and it’s feeling very repetative already. Are the PC/PS versions better? I like Japanease RPGs genrally, but I am anything but impressed by FF.
Apart from that, all I have done is sleep, watch random episodes of Friends and poke about on Facebook/play Mafia Wars (which is awesome by the way. You should all play it NOW). I don’t know how I’ve made it to Wednesday without losing the plot. Hopefully I’ll be able to get out of bed tomorrow. Maybe I’ll even make it down the stairs!
If I hadn’t had such a boring few days I’d be able to fill this post with a lot more (which I’m sure you’d love to read), but then again, if I hadn’t had such a boring few days, I doubt I’d be typing out a massive, pointless post anyway.
GOODNIGHT AND GOD BLESS.
PS – my spell check isn’t working. Forgive me for idiotic mistakes.
I thought I was getting better from this damn flu, but I feel 5 times worse today. My muscles are all achey again, and I’m so fucking exhausted. Maybe getting dressed was too much for my fragile body.
This is day no. 5 of the illness now. I guess I’m doing alright really considering. Some old guy my mother knows has been ill with it for 3 weeks. I should be greatful I’m young and healthy.
In other news, I made it so you have to log in to post here now. That means you have to make an account on my blog. I’m sure most of you can’t be fucked doing that, but it’d be nice if one or two of you did. I like my comments!