I don't know why, but I was exceptionally tired today, and yet today's lessons were all too important to fall asleep in class. Usually, I don't even sneak a 5 min nap during lessons, but when I do, I really sleep. Once I fall asleep, I can hardly wake up again, until the class is over. ANd when I sleep, I can dream or have nightmares.
There was once I dreamt of someone tickling me when I was taking a nap in the central library and I burst out laughing, waking up almost immediately thereafter. Luckily it wasn't a "mugging in the library" period, so there was no one around me.
There was this other time when I fell asleep during one lecture a few semesters back. I not only had chicken scribes wrtitten all over my notes, I even babbled in my sleep and I was sitting with my friends. But I think I wasn't very loud, so only one friend heard it and nudged me waking me up. But the point is I don't like to fall asleep in class. Especially not today when Prof Farrell is going to talk about the US intervention decision to KPO in the Vietname war in the 1960s, cos I'm doing my research essay on that. I was already falling asleep towards the end of the class before it.
So what I did was I bought one can of cold Nescafe before Farrell's class. Usually a bit of caffeine would go a long way, but I had lunch just before the lesson, so I supposed I needed double my usual dosage, or the caffeine needed longer to work. But towards the first half of the lesson, my concentration started to waned and my eyelids were threatening to fall. So during the break I got myself a cup of hot, BLACK coffee, and gulp down half a cup before lesson began. The effect was amazing. I didnt feel sleepy, but gradually the horrible effects of caffeine kicked in. My heart-beat quickened, and I started to get restless and jittery. I started shuffling my feet and drum of my fingers took control, of which I had to consciously stop myself from doing so. Then I started writing very fast(which was not neccessarily a bad thing), but my wrists hurt from it. And worse, I was slightly hypervantilating. Luckily no one tried to talk to me, or I'd start talking very fast, and nobody will understand what I'm speaking.
After class, I went to the library to photocopy some materials that I could use for my research essay, and went I was photocopying, I was kind of excited by the bright light of the photocopier that I started breathing rather deeply. It didn't help that I was standing. I felt plain awful. The guy beside me at the photocopier kept looking at me; either thinking that I am excited by photocoping a dumb book; or I was going to get an asthma attack. But either way I was so embarrassed that I chose a copier with no one around.
Trying to make myself better, I told myself I could take a walk around the bazzaar at the central forum before heading back, and perhaps I could get something pretty for my mom's brithday this coming SUnday.
I got 3 pairs of handmade rose earrings. One scarlet, one deep plum, and one white with a light lavender tinge at the center.

Shopping is therapeutic; so is blogging.









