i have slept 30 hours in the past two days by Suzuko O. '30

on thursday i assembled foamboard posters for esp cascade for two hours, then went to puzzle club at 5:30, and then after that i started baking a cake. as i baked the cake my throat started feeling more and more sore. oh no i thought oh no aaaaaaaaa frick PLEASE NO. i drank some milk but that did not fix my throat being sore. i went to steve⁠01 tetazoo's graduate resident advisor (gra)! study break in walounge,⁠02 one of our two lounges where my throat felt even more sore. at 10:52 i ask the tetazoo group chat if anyone has nyquil or any other pain reliever; tori gives me some advil. at 11:28 scarlet tells me to sleep. at a little bit past twelve, i play the daily catfishing. at 12:15 i finally turn the lights off and go to sleep

at 10:30 my first alarm goes off. this is because my first class on monday wednesday friday is 5.112⁠03 aka intro chem but Hard:tm: which has lecture at 11. my throat is still sore. it hurts to swallow. i decide that i don’t want to go to class. i ask sean to ask around for cough drops; he gives me two handfuls from an. i set another alarm for 1pm and go back to sleep. 

at 1pm my second alarm goes off. coincidentally, 1pm is when my second class of the day is: 18.03.⁠04 differential equations i decide i don’t want to go to class. but before i sleep this time i stumble through typing out an email to my terrascope advisor telling her that i am sick and will be missing class. i set another alarm for 4pm and go back to sleep. 

at 4pm my third alarm goes off. by this time i have missed all three classes for the day. i laze around in bed for a bit. eventually i decide that drinking water and eating food are good for me, so i get out of bed for the first time. if you check the clock i have now slept for almost 16 hours. that’s a lot of hours! i drag myself to tetazoo kitchen on the other end of hall, where i microwave myself some rice and spam. i sit in glounge⁠05 the other of our two lounges and watch people play tomodachi life. tetazoo has played tomodachi life almost continuously for the past few days. it is bad. there is tomodachi life happening at least until 6am. i finally make my own mii! yay! i remember i have a quiz to do for 12.004⁠06 intro to the global carbon cycle and go to my room and speedrun it. i eat another bowl of rice and spam. eventually as i go into the kitchen hua tells me to go to sleep. i say “but… tomodachi life….” she says “don’t ‘tomodachi life’ me”. fine. i go back to my room. sean asks if i am going to putz tetazoo mixer. i decide i don’t want to go to that, nor the fifth west fallout-themed party after that. i set a timer on my phone for 12:00, because sean’s birthday pancakes are tonight, and go to sleep. it is 7:30pm. 

at 11:49pm i wake up spontaneously. at 12:02 sean wakes up because rory is calling him because it is his birthday pancakes. i decide that i don’t want to go to birthday pancakes and just lay in bed. i play the daily catfishing. twenty minutes later, sean and his partner come back. i say happy birthday again. i go to sleep. it is 12:30am.

at 4:21am my friend will texts me to say he is in tetazoo. i do not respond because i am asleep.

at 11:30am my alarm goes off. i turn it off and set another timer for 2:30pm, but then decide to just wake up. i am feeling a lot better! it doesn’t hurt to swallow anymore. i read a friend’s blog post. i eat a tangerine. i shower. i eat another tangerine, maybe. i go to the kitchen and toast a bagel and eat it with cream cheese. i refill my water bottle. i talk to sage and jesse and charlie. i eat some broccoli. i toast another bagel and eat it with cream cheese. i look at my spanish reading. i go back to my room.

i lay in bed. what do i have to do? spanish class is the most urgent. i read funes el memorioso, then i decide i would rather listen to it audiobook style. i play some chess. i read funes el memorioso in english. i text some friends. i read about and watch an interview with argentinian neuroscientist rodrigo quian quiroga. i decide to skip dance troupe rehearsal. my alarm goes off. i decide to write this blog post. maybe i will finally get chipotle?

thank goodness i got sick on friday, i think. thank goodness i didn’t get sick on thursday, when i had a chem quiz, or on wednesday, when i had a diffeq midterm. thank goodness i didn’t get sick on days where i actually couldn’t miss class. thank goodness i did not have super urgent work to do. thank goodness i can fade off the face of the earth for 30 hours and my life goes on.