Thursday 13 December 2012

I hate it when a plan falls apart

Finals may be done but not in the style I would have liked. Continuing from my last post, all I had left to do was my Cognitive Psychology final on Monday and a paper for my Social Influences class due on Wednesday. Easy enough, especially considering how I was almost done the paper already.

The plan was: exam Monday morning. Go home, finish paper, send it to the Professor to review, date with Theresa Tuesday, revise paper after date, submit the paper Tuesday evening for grading, enjoy my winter break on Wednesday.

I know my limitations so I'm able to fairly accurately know how things should occur days if not weeks in advance. I'm generally able to account for hiccups and delays and factor them in as well.

Well, I didn't expect a hiccup of this variety or this magnitude.



Let's go back in time for a moment. Monday afternoon. I've just finished my exam, I'm excited, I'm almost free, all is well. I'm really tired having barely slept in the last few days but the adrenaline from the exam is still keeping me going.

Either that or the 710ml of Coke I drank to keep me awake during the exam.

I stop by Safeway to grab a bowl of soup and a bread bowl for lunch because I love soup and I love bread bowls. Decided to treat myself. Got home, and half way through my bread bowl I feel oddly full and more tired than usual. I decide to take a quick nap and then get started on my essay.

I wake up a few hours later wanting to vomit, my intestines were cramping up and I'm still as exhausted from before I took the nap.


Yep, stomach flu. That's just great. Well, fairly certain it was stomach flu and the soup that did it to me. Last time I checked, Coke doesn't cause stomach problems of this magnitude.

I then spent the next 48 hours huddled up in bed, feeling terrible, not eating anything solid. Liquid in, liquid out to say it nicely.

Note that this doesn't change the deadline of my paper.

So come Tuesday evening when I finally feel coherent enough, I  drag myself to my computer, finish my paper and send it to my prof early Wednesday morning in hopes that she'll still take a look at it.

And then waddled back to the bathroom to have my insides explode.

The good news is that a few hours later I do get an email back from the prof. The bad news is that because I sent it to her on the day its due she won't provide any help with it.

Well, gee thanks.

And it pisses me off even further because I could have had that stupid paper in her inbox for review on Monday if I didn't get sick. Or at least, Tuesday evening if I wasn't so sick.

So I looked over my paper several times in hopes that my own editing would be good enough and submit it for grading. I probably looked something like this:

Tea is soothing for the stomach.

I'm still slightly sick. The thought of eggs and greasy foods still makes me queasy. But who cares? I'm finally done now.

Just, not as elegantly as I would have liked.

31 comments:

  1. Well you're done so let's focus on that. Congratulations on getting it all done, especially in your condition. Did you explain to her that you were sick? She might have been a bit more lenient, it's not like you could help what happened to you.

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  2. Ugh no fun! I'm sorry you're sick. But yay for being done!

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  3. Tea and dry toast -- that'll help you transition back into the world of the living. Hope all is well soon.

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  4. Blah, hate friggin germs and what they can do. But can't really help that, at least you got it in.

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  5. I hear stomach flu is awful, I never had it myself.

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  6. I know the feeling, just caught the fly myself, yesterday

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  7. Get better soon, I hope the paper is a success!

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  8. It was an awkward last sprint, but you crossed the finish line! Give yourself plenty of time to recover, please.

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  9. May not be the food, I know lots of people who had the same thing. A virus I suspect. I am sure the paper will be great.

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  10. So sorry for your feeling unwell. Sometimes such things spoil all the carefully organized plans :(

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  11. Oh, no!!!! That's terrible timing... your body probably couldn't fight off the infection since you've been so stressed out and busy building up to this point... at least it's all over now, though, right?

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  12. Sheesh! Sounds like a super rough couple of days! I hope you're feeling better and your paper is awesome!

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  13. Yikes. I hope you feel better soon!

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  14. I'm sorry to hear about your illness Damien although I'm glad that you're all finished with your work. Get better soon, hopefully this is the tail end of the illness now.

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  15. I'm glad you are done, but I hope you fell 100% better very soon. I too feel sick and queasy but that's due to a late night gig I just did.

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  16. ...finish paper, send it to the Professor to review, date with Theresa Tuesday, revise paper after date... When I was a student in a different life, I used to do the same thing: study - girlfriend - study (also 'study girlfriend'). But then I actually printed out my tight schedule and my then girlfriend saw her name and couldn't appreciate it too much. She felt like she was just another subject. Sometimes I just don't understand women...

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  17. Coke is actually good when you have diarrhoea :)

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  18. Good to hear you got it done! I hope you're feeling better soon--that sounds miserable.

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  19. Ouch. Glad you're done. Hope you can look at solid foods soon. I like the pictures you use...specially of the storm trooper on the toilet.

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  20. Wowza O.o
    Hope you feel better soon! And at least it's over now so you can chillax :P
    I wish I could be more organised, I even try to make study schedules for myself and everything but...blah.

    Tay
    x

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  21. Good Lord!!! But you beat the fates in the end and had the last laugh! You did it!! Well done you! So now please get better! Take care
    x

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  22. Sorry you got sick. I hope you're feeling better!

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  23. Ah you're alright man, it could be worse. You just got Murphy all up in your business.

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  24. :( i hope the paper ends up great

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  25. I cringed as I read this. I've only had stomach flu once, and it was the worst sickness I've ever had. Damn near liquefies your insides from both ends. I hope you feel better.

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  26. UGH! bad timing! stomach flu and/or food poisoning tend to happen at the worst possible time!

    i enjoyed a meatball sandwich with the boyfriend on saturday night. well at FIRST i enjoyed it, but late that night and the following day it CAUSED A LOT OF PROBLEMS. very unpleasant. i will never go to that restaurant again! NEVER!

    anyway! glad you are done and hope you feel a whole lot better soon!

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  27. Yikes. Yay for getting it all done. I hope you are feeling a whole lot better now.

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  28. I use to live by the motto "Soup is good food", but it looks as though one can't even depend on that anymore.

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  29. Don't beat yourself up too much, these things always happen. Bad things happen to good people whe procrastination occurs.....

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  30. Ah finals..... I just finished my final semester at University. I am going to do some additional schooling but I don't think I will have to deal with the crunch time of finals again. Great post!

    FOLLOWED! :D

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