The low-down
Oh I cannot believe it is the middle of August. I remember counting the number of weeks left till the "official" end of winter in the middle of July. That felt like yesterday, but here we are, two weeks from the "official" end of winter.
I haven't been having the best run lately. Caught a cold during my last and most busy week of winter placement.. probably from one of the kids in school, and had one too many of them late nights cum early mornings. Was losing the plot towards the end and boy am I glad that placement's over. I loved the kids and I learnt a lot, but the workload just got too much. Sometimes I have no idea how I am ever going to survive in the working world..but it would probably be easier when you're not being assessed on every single thing you do.
On top of that cold, my wisdom tooth started giving me the most ridiculous pains. I honestly can't remember the last time I ate something solid and chewy. Been surviving on a diet of mashed potato/porridge/oranges (LOL)/eggs for the past 6 or 7 days now. I've recently added ice-cream to my very restricted list of foods I can be bothered preparing. I'm sure there are lots of wonderful options, that would look and taste a lot more appealing than my little list there...but yeah, if only I had thought of ice-cream earlier. ICE-CREAM DIET. I have...***FLASHING NEWS*** just removed one of my wisdom teeth, the one that was giving me trouble, obviously. Oh me oh my! It was a lot quicker than I had expected...and not as painful as I had imagined it to be. Considering the fact that I just had a gruelling visit to the dentist the day before, I believe my dental anxiety is justified. Trust me, I don't know what went wrong but my infected gum did not get numb and I am such a genius I didn't know what 'numb' was really supposed to feel like. Until I felt this crazy pain as the dentist started scraping away at my tooth! Probably the most physically painful thing I've ever experienced in my life. Apart from fracturing my arm, uhhh... once upon a time.
Oh well. Can't wait till the day I can eat properly again....Already making a mental list to things-to-eat.
And this might come across as being mildly melodramatic...seeing as I'm basing this on the way I always fall sick suddenly and not gradually. Probably applies less to my random bouts of feeling 'under the weather', but I sometimes am almost scared to wonder what I would wake up with tomorrow? Plus the saying's kinda true...about how when it rains, it pours. Things don't just come one at a time, and they sure as hell aren't concerned by the fact that there might already be a different unexpected event occurring. The more the merrier? They don't knock politely on the door, or wait their turn patiently like being in a waiting room of some sort. There seem to be periods where life is peaceful to the extent of being dull and uneventful, and one fine day, you might wake up not expecting anything to change just to have everything change. YAY NAY GOOD BAD IT'LL HAPPEN ANYWAY.
Having said all that, I have about 12 weeks left to go for this academic year, and I'm keeping my fingers crossed. 2013 is the best year thus far in terms of how my "New Year resolutions" are panning out...and I don't wanna jinx it but, just 12 weeks to go!!!!
