Afsoon’s Posties

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Well I’ve been sleep deprived for over 6 months now.  And I can catch 1-2 hours of sleep here and there, if  lucky I could get 4.  But anyways,  the night before my midterm was due,  I continued working on the damn project.  My nose kept getting worse.  Every 2 seconds I had to wipe it so I wouldn’t have snot on my drawing (sorry for the graphic picture).  So by the time I finished and looked up at the clock, it was 4:30 A.M.  Well, I was rolling along on adrenaline and thought “Hey!  Look at me go!”

I got up and went to eat breakfast  (oh no, that’s not early for breakfast.  I usually eat at 4:00 A.M.  b/c that’s the time I get up to exercise).  And then I got ready for class.

(Do I look tired?)

When driving to school, it hits me that I’m exhausted.  Right smack in the face.  And I said “I need caffeine.”  Now, you see I haven’t had coffee for about 5 years b/c before that I was really addicted to it, so I quit.  I pull over to Starbucks and I get myself a Venti Soy Latte.  About 11:00 A.M., I’m still dragging…I go buy another one.  1:00 P.M. comes around and I’m going to knock out and I buy another one.  While cutting the foam board for my project, my hand starts shaking.  I sit down and I start rocking back and forth like I was autistic.  I look at the foam board and I say “Omigod!  It looks like a rat nibbled on it” and start having a panic attack.

Got through that like crossing the Atlantic ocean with my hands tied behind my back.  Before class even starts, I had even more panic attacks and continue shaking uncontrollably. I go to class and I wait for my professor.  She comes in and I tell her I need to talk to her about something.  So we go outside and I start BALLING like a baby.  I thought I was going to flood the whole school.  She calmed me down and told me to take 3 deep breaths (she did it with me.  Seriously she’s such a sweetheart!).  We start talking about my situation and I start laughing.  LAUGHING!  Then I cried.  It was a roller coaster of emotions.  Thank God, she found it funny too.

Ends up my condition was due to not only the caffeine, but the fact that I was sick, I had Mother Nature’s monthly gift, sleep deprived and majorly depressed.  So everything was just rushing out of me.  She described me as a punch drunk and as though I shot up heroin.  Man, it was terrible.  She was so understanding.  I love that woman.  She told me to go freshen up and come back to class when I thought I was ready.  When I left, I felt paranoid and very claustrophobic.  She let me leave early.

I got home at 5 P.M.  and went to bed.  I slept from 5:30 P.M. to about 5:30 A.M. and WOW.  I never thought I’d live to see the day that I’d sleep that long.  It was beautiful.

Here I am today.  Semi-normal, but still tired.  Did you learn the moral of the story?  Because I sure did.  

Did I bore you?  I’m sorry.

Anywho…I found this at Starbucks.  They’re coffee coated almonds.  Mmmm, so good!

And I fell inlove with Vosges Calindia Bar.  My cousin’s wife bought it for me in Las Vegas (we there about a month ago) from the Vosges shop (so expensive, but so worth it!).  I like how it says it’s vegan on the packaging.  The lady working there was vegan also (awesome!).

Speaking of Las Vegas.  I went to the Grande Lux Cafe in the Venetian.  I got this really good Crispy Sesame Tofu.  Try to go there if you’re visiting.

I think that’s enough for today.  It felt good to get that out of my system.

Images ™ J. Afsoon A. (except for the creepy dancing milk)

What the hell is this?  It’s creeping me out…And so not vegan