Fly me back...to where my home is?

man...had a busy day today, tuesdays are always insane. left my room at 8 plus in the morning, and just got back not too long ago (it's 8.20pm), that's almost 12 hours out of my room. had early class today, then during my lunch break i went to take the tb test, which wasn't half as bad as i remembered it to be, was over pretty fast. i had to pay $12 to be poked in the arm though, later i found out i should have gone somewhere to get it done for free, the program coordinator had given me the wrong information, so she'll have to look into getting me reinbursed, at least i am going to get reinbursed. then i went to get fingerprinted (all this is for a mentoring program i volunteered for) at the police department. was pretty cool...they had this computer that scanned in all 10 of my fingerprints. as i left the police department i was hit by a serious bout of hiccups, maybe the effect of compounded stress? after all, getting poked by a needle and following a police officer into a dark, dingy room in the corner of the basement of the police department are none too pleasant affairs. but yeah...i was hiccuping away, rushing to class. it was really funny, was walking closely behind this guy coz it was really crowded and i just kept going "hic...hic...". when i finally could, i walked a little bit away, didn't want to freak him out. the moment i did, he turned to look at me as discreetly as he could, i guess to see who the weird person who had just been hicking away behind him was. that really made me want to laugh, but obviously i couldn't do that out loud, so i was grinning away, biting my lips to stop myself from an outburst...and i was still hicking away, which just made me want to laugh some more (my dearest sc: he must have thought me kiar-ooma). so i entertained myself for 15 minutes walking to class and being totally tickled by my own out-of-control body. fortunately, the hiccups stopped before class started, coz it would not have been funny to be making noise in the deadly silence of lecture. after lecture i went to the gym, was working out when my friend startled me by suddenly coming up behind me and asking where the locker room was (his first time in the gym obviously)...after i recovered from the shock, and he finally found the locker room, he started using the treadmill next to me. and for the second time today i had to stifle back laughter. gosh, the way he ran was really funny...you know how some people run without moving their arms? well...his were entirely glued to his side, which just made him look like a duck running or something...k, i'm being awfully bad. but it was seriously funny...i was reading a mag at that time, so i just smiled really hard at the magazine.
after that i went to the library to look for a book my english teacher had put on reserve for us to go get and photocopy...don't know why he didn't put it on the booklist at the beginning of term. anyway, i couldn't find it, so it was a wasted trip. then i went to this meet the parents session at rosa parks elementary school...where i'll be going to mentor this little fourth-grader boy, he wasn't there so i didn't get to meet him, but i bet he'll be awfully cute! he's at the bratty age, but he was described as "a little quiet" so hopefully he'll be ok. and yeah...after that i finally got back to my dorm, where i'm sitting now happily (and tiredly...is there such a word?) typing this.
long blog to match my long day. k, now back to studying. work never ends.
tonight's accompanying melody as i do my homework is igor stravinsky's rites of spring (vic: any comments? might come in useful later)...there's going to be an english lecture on the piece next week so part of my homework is to listen to it (yes, i don't see the connection either, but it's relatively painless so i won't complain)...classical music is supposed to aid homework completion right? i'm off to test the hypothesis.
p.s. chris: we should stop reporting bad things to each other! i just stubbed my toe real bad...
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