divine angst

Oh by golly, it has been a DAY.

First, let me state for the record that when I get off the train after a reasonably long ride, I feel like I just stepped off a boat. I’m not sure if this is strictly related to the train itself or if it’s a combination of the rocking of the locomotive and where I’m coming from—Aikido. Aikido is the only place I go regularly that’s more than a few train stops away and I always feel this rocking feeling when I get home from Aikido. It’s mildly unnerving.

So back to my DAY. I had double Crim today, for starters. Contracts, by the way, was a smooth class today, but I am sure that had nothing to do with UNDERSTANDING how what we’re doing today fits into what we’ve been learning so far or anything. But, yeah, Crim was long. And we were supposed to get snacks since we were in class during the noon hour, but there were no snacks. There were burritos for the Federalists (who had a speaker I would have liked to hear but, remember, I had CLASS) but the line was INSANELY long and I was not so patient. So I had almonds for lunch.

And then I was so hungry that I bought a little thing of pasta salad and scarfed it right before Civ Pro, but it had onions in it and despite my attempt to AVOID the onions, I spent Civ Pro feeling that onion-y feeling in my tummy.

And Civ Pro was, yet again, a complete muddle. I got the reading, I guess. And I got what he was telling us. I guess. But in that class I always feel like I’m just keeping ahead, so by the time it really sinks in, he’s moved on and I either can’t ask the question I finally have or someone has already asked all the questions I might have had if I had caught on quicker.

Aikido, in other words, was a good ending to the day. I needed to burn off some agitation and steam, but I really wasn’t looking forward to getting beaten up (like I did in last Tuesday’s class). And joyfully tonight was not a beat-up-Kristine kind of class. It was a work-Kristine-into-shape kind of class, it was a get-Kristine-centered kind of class.

Now if only I could figure out how to underline and highlight straight while reading on the train.