Journal and Explanation
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drownedinlight So, dear peoples, let me tell you a story. This is a story of a girl who was dehydrated for no really good reason. There was no really good reason for this because this girl drank water, tons and tons (well, not literal tons, because a ton is two thousand pounds, but still she drank at least two liters a day, which is what you are supposed to drink) of water. And this dehydration hit one day, after she woke up and felt fine. She even woke up, made brown sugar oatmeal, walked her friend's dog, and then ate cheesy meatloaf with said friend. And all through this, she felt fine.
Untill after lunch. And whenever she moved her head she felt incredibly dizzy, like she could not move at all, without feeling that she could collapse on the ground. She tried to bear it for sometime, and tried to do things on her computer, tried guzzling down water, but eventually she could no longer bear it and went to lie down. And she lay down and lay down, and when her friend's friend came, she tried to get up, but it didn't work. And she drank lots of water but nothing seemed to work. And so, when she finally began to feel better she decided to try and get up and eat something.
And so she went to the bathroom and tried to get all the things out of her bowls that needed to get out, and found that there were some not so good things going on there. And eventually she got off of the toilette and went to sit on a cheast in the hall. Feeling miserable. And then she asked Friend J for some Milk of Magnesia and bread to quell her reeling stomach, but nothing seemed to work and she only felt sicker and more dizzy as she moved. And she really wanted her mom. But since her mother was over a thousand (literal) miles away, all she could do was give her mother a telephone call. And it helped a little, just to hear a comforting voice but it did not help enough, because she felt miserable. But her mother suggested that she make a 2 quart pitcher of Kool-aid, with a cup of suger and a tablespoon of salt (and later told her that this was not a good thing for people with kidney problems to try because of all the sodium in it), and to try and drink it because the girl was probably a little down on her electrolites, and needed to get some.
And then the girl's friend's mother came up and gave the girl a hug as she started to cry a little, and brought the girl to lie down in her bed, and called the girl's mother back to see what they needed to do if they needed to take the girl to the hospital (because the girl had foolishly forgotten her wallet at her university instead of taking it on break with her). And the friend's mother made everything okay, and had her drinking plenty of kool-aid made with sugar and salt (although, the girl would like to advise that people also drink about half as much milk with this, so they do not get the runs, like the girl did). And the girl felt a little better with each drop of Kool-Aid she sipped through a bendy straw and when she was done with the Kool-Aid she went back to drinking the water and whwen she woke up she was nearly completely recovered (well, she felt a little light headed, and she did have the runs, but mostly she was okay).
THe End
Yeah, so I was sick yesterday. I was majorly dehydrated, emphasis on the major and the de. It was really so bad, that I couldn't move with out feeling wracked with dizziness. And so I thought I was dehydrated (and as it turns out I was, which was weird, because I drink litres of water a day), but I was so dehydrated that I really needed some electrolytes, which drinking water doesn't simply give you (okay, so that's one of the advantages gateraid has, I will give you that). But we toyed with the ideas of me having food poisoning (I also was going to the batroom quite a bit then, and I felt sick to my stomach), and also with having an ear infection, because I'm kind of suceptable to those, and I usually don't get any pain wiht them, so it's really hard for us to tell. But, I didn't have a fever, and after I started drinking down my Mom's Kool-Aid cocktail, I began feeling much better.
So yeah, this is a really long explanation as to why I posted nothing yesterday. And yeah, I was up for two hours before I started feeling really terrible, but I really was not planning on feeling that bad (and I did), so nothing got written yesterday, or read for that matter. So I'm counting it as a sick day and writting in to my official rules.
Rule...4, I think: On a day in which the writer (that's me!) is so ill she cannot concentrate long enough, or even stare at a computer screen long enough that she can write and post two thosand words, it will be okay. She is allowed to forgive herself and move on with her life and write four thousand words the next day. She also doesn't have to read if she can't help it, and may read double the next day
So today my goal is a bit more ambitious, but I once wrote seven thousand words during National Novel Writing Month, so I know I can do four thousand words today, and get one hundred pages read. It shouldn't be that bad, I mean after after this sentence is done I will have nine hundred ninety words done. So, yeah, now my goal is really down to three thousand when you think about it.
But also, I feel the need to talk about school and scholarships, because right now, things are a little suckish in that area, and why have a journal if you can't vent at it.
So I was counting on being an RA to get three thousand extra dollars towards the "Don't Make Me Leave Hollins," Fund, but yeah, that didn't happen. So now I have a very limited amount of money to play with to go back to school next year. But I do have a lot of scholarships I'm trying to write essays for and do stuff with, and I'm thinking about going off of the meal plan next year so that I can have like six or seven thousand dollars less to pay so that would majorly help (but then I still have to pay for food, which I'm pretty sure would be about a thosand dollars out of my own pocket, but still that's a lot less than the school is having me pay for), and maybe future roommate whom I do not yet have would be interested in doing it with me, so we could split some of the costs of food and stuff.
But, currently, I only have about half of my tuition, room, board etc paid for by the school, and the rest I have to make up in scholarships, because no one is going to give me a loan, and by now the government was supposed be paying for my school by now, because my mom was supposed be one hundred percent disabled by now so the government said that they would pay for my school. But they lied...or at leat they twisted their words, so I'm trying to make up for it from money from other sources.
And what really gets me, is that last fall, when I was getting ready to go off to school, my mom was all, "I don't think God brought this far to have you go back." But now, in her opinion, apparently, he did, because she wants me to come home for a semester, or a year, and I just don't think I could do it. My parents raised me to be independent (I'm not sure they intended to, but that's the way it worked out), and I have lived on my own (well, with a roommate) for almost an entire year. And I'm not even sure how this summer is going to go, much less a whole semester or a year, how I could live in a space with my parents, where I don't have the freedom, to do as I need to or please. And it's just.....I don't think that would be a good idea.
So, if you know anyone who is just giving away money, I would appreciate the information because I need money to go to school, and no one will even give me money so that I can pay them back with interest later. I also check out jeopardy adn the last college test took place on the fifteenth, so that's out, and I could have maybe won a couple grand there. Maybe...I would have had to try first. Anyway, I need money. I am planning on getting a job, but that will, at most supply me with very limited funds. But I am trying to be hopeful, and trying to do more than that and actually be hopeful. Soo...yeah. I'll stop talking about this now.
Piece Count: 1586
3/23/11 WC: same (for now...)
Project WC: 48866
Untill after lunch. And whenever she moved her head she felt incredibly dizzy, like she could not move at all, without feeling that she could collapse on the ground. She tried to bear it for sometime, and tried to do things on her computer, tried guzzling down water, but eventually she could no longer bear it and went to lie down. And she lay down and lay down, and when her friend's friend came, she tried to get up, but it didn't work. And she drank lots of water but nothing seemed to work. And so, when she finally began to feel better she decided to try and get up and eat something.
And so she went to the bathroom and tried to get all the things out of her bowls that needed to get out, and found that there were some not so good things going on there. And eventually she got off of the toilette and went to sit on a cheast in the hall. Feeling miserable. And then she asked Friend J for some Milk of Magnesia and bread to quell her reeling stomach, but nothing seemed to work and she only felt sicker and more dizzy as she moved. And she really wanted her mom. But since her mother was over a thousand (literal) miles away, all she could do was give her mother a telephone call. And it helped a little, just to hear a comforting voice but it did not help enough, because she felt miserable. But her mother suggested that she make a 2 quart pitcher of Kool-aid, with a cup of suger and a tablespoon of salt (and later told her that this was not a good thing for people with kidney problems to try because of all the sodium in it), and to try and drink it because the girl was probably a little down on her electrolites, and needed to get some.
And then the girl's friend's mother came up and gave the girl a hug as she started to cry a little, and brought the girl to lie down in her bed, and called the girl's mother back to see what they needed to do if they needed to take the girl to the hospital (because the girl had foolishly forgotten her wallet at her university instead of taking it on break with her). And the friend's mother made everything okay, and had her drinking plenty of kool-aid made with sugar and salt (although, the girl would like to advise that people also drink about half as much milk with this, so they do not get the runs, like the girl did). And the girl felt a little better with each drop of Kool-Aid she sipped through a bendy straw and when she was done with the Kool-Aid she went back to drinking the water and whwen she woke up she was nearly completely recovered (well, she felt a little light headed, and she did have the runs, but mostly she was okay).
THe End
Yeah, so I was sick yesterday. I was majorly dehydrated, emphasis on the major and the de. It was really so bad, that I couldn't move with out feeling wracked with dizziness. And so I thought I was dehydrated (and as it turns out I was, which was weird, because I drink litres of water a day), but I was so dehydrated that I really needed some electrolytes, which drinking water doesn't simply give you (okay, so that's one of the advantages gateraid has, I will give you that). But we toyed with the ideas of me having food poisoning (I also was going to the batroom quite a bit then, and I felt sick to my stomach), and also with having an ear infection, because I'm kind of suceptable to those, and I usually don't get any pain wiht them, so it's really hard for us to tell. But, I didn't have a fever, and after I started drinking down my Mom's Kool-Aid cocktail, I began feeling much better.
So yeah, this is a really long explanation as to why I posted nothing yesterday. And yeah, I was up for two hours before I started feeling really terrible, but I really was not planning on feeling that bad (and I did), so nothing got written yesterday, or read for that matter. So I'm counting it as a sick day and writting in to my official rules.
Rule...4, I think: On a day in which the writer (that's me!) is so ill she cannot concentrate long enough, or even stare at a computer screen long enough that she can write and post two thosand words, it will be okay. She is allowed to forgive herself and move on with her life and write four thousand words the next day. She also doesn't have to read if she can't help it, and may read double the next day
So today my goal is a bit more ambitious, but I once wrote seven thousand words during National Novel Writing Month, so I know I can do four thousand words today, and get one hundred pages read. It shouldn't be that bad, I mean after after this sentence is done I will have nine hundred ninety words done. So, yeah, now my goal is really down to three thousand when you think about it.
But also, I feel the need to talk about school and scholarships, because right now, things are a little suckish in that area, and why have a journal if you can't vent at it.
So I was counting on being an RA to get three thousand extra dollars towards the "Don't Make Me Leave Hollins," Fund, but yeah, that didn't happen. So now I have a very limited amount of money to play with to go back to school next year. But I do have a lot of scholarships I'm trying to write essays for and do stuff with, and I'm thinking about going off of the meal plan next year so that I can have like six or seven thousand dollars less to pay so that would majorly help (but then I still have to pay for food, which I'm pretty sure would be about a thosand dollars out of my own pocket, but still that's a lot less than the school is having me pay for), and maybe future roommate whom I do not yet have would be interested in doing it with me, so we could split some of the costs of food and stuff.
But, currently, I only have about half of my tuition, room, board etc paid for by the school, and the rest I have to make up in scholarships, because no one is going to give me a loan, and by now the government was supposed be paying for my school by now, because my mom was supposed be one hundred percent disabled by now so the government said that they would pay for my school. But they lied...or at leat they twisted their words, so I'm trying to make up for it from money from other sources.
And what really gets me, is that last fall, when I was getting ready to go off to school, my mom was all, "I don't think God brought this far to have you go back." But now, in her opinion, apparently, he did, because she wants me to come home for a semester, or a year, and I just don't think I could do it. My parents raised me to be independent (I'm not sure they intended to, but that's the way it worked out), and I have lived on my own (well, with a roommate) for almost an entire year. And I'm not even sure how this summer is going to go, much less a whole semester or a year, how I could live in a space with my parents, where I don't have the freedom, to do as I need to or please. And it's just.....I don't think that would be a good idea.
So, if you know anyone who is just giving away money, I would appreciate the information because I need money to go to school, and no one will even give me money so that I can pay them back with interest later. I also check out jeopardy adn the last college test took place on the fifteenth, so that's out, and I could have maybe won a couple grand there. Maybe...I would have had to try first. Anyway, I need money. I am planning on getting a job, but that will, at most supply me with very limited funds. But I am trying to be hopeful, and trying to do more than that and actually be hopeful. Soo...yeah. I'll stop talking about this now.
Piece Count: 1586
3/23/11 WC: same (for now...)
Project WC: 48866
Still Reading: Girl Power by Hillary Carlip
