Graduated

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My first month done with school has passed. It’s a relief not to have to do college work after over ten years of it. I took the opportunity to extend my own personal writing break to the whole of May where I didn’t take two hours to write any original fiction or fanfiction. I think I needed a break to help recharge and after all the intensive class writing. After over three weeks though, I admit I’m becoming a bit restless. I’m of mixed minds over whether to resume two hour writing in June or extend the writing break there, since ending school’s a major change, so I might as well test another change to my habits. Speaking of change, I’ve also stopped my pattern of watching the news and breaking every five minutes to read or write something, at least for three days in the week. It was also to accompany the writing break but I’m sure it contributed to my restlessness. Still, I might keep doing that. It leaves more time in the day to do other things. 

Admittedly, I needed that extra time because not long after class ended, I caught a cold and my sleep schedule went belly up. I alternated between sleeping during the day and at night, when the coughing’s worse. After over two weeks where the cough didn’t go away, I called my lung doctor and he prescribed meds to help manage it. I suspected the cough would have needed med intervention, because it always did when I caught a cold before, including last year. So far, my coughing has eased but I’ll see if it’s gone for good.

Last Monday morning, we experienced a bit of a scare since the Wifi went down in the middle of the night. Since a lot of our sleep schedules were messed up, that didn’t leave us a lot to do. Since that day was also the day we were supposed to get our Wifi upgraded, I wondered if the issue was related. To occupy those long hours, I read some documents and other things I saved onto my computer, which was nostalgic and gave me some writing juices. When the wifi workers came around at mid-morning, it turns out that it was the policy to turn off the wifi before upgrading it, the group just didn’t tell. My mom and I went shopping (still wearing masks) as the wifi got upgraded and when we got back, it was all back to normal. So far, I haven’t noticed any explicit changes but I guess that was a positive sign. I wish the company had told us so we could be prepared.

That’s all for now. I’m typing away on a cold May Sunday afternoon after having vacuumed and watching a video about the universe’s age. Until the end of June, see you!