This is How You Know it's the Weekend

Today I am getting over a cold that seemed to come out of nowhere suddenly. It started off with a sore throat, then a fever the next day. I had to get up and get a few things, but by the time I got back, my body was finished. So yesterday I stayed in bed as much as I could. I had to get up a few times though, because I just get bored. I tried to call the doctor. I guess they come to your house and bring you medicine, or that's what I heard. But we didn't understand each other, so I thought, maybe I don't need medicine. Then Lydia gave me some. She's pre-med, it's fine. lol. Anyway, today, I feel a lot better. Just really weak and dehydrated, so I'll be working on that today while doing some hw. Tomorrow there's a holiday, so there are no classes. Some people have the entire week off. My dance school does. People are on vacation and the residence hall is really empty. Lollapalooza is this week. Lots of things going on.

I'm not sure if this is a study abroad phase, but sometimes when I'm really tired or confused or both, I have these hallucinations that my parents are here. For example, Friday, I had a meeting with an editor (!) and after I left, it took me about 3 1/2 hours to figure out the bus back home. After a while, I realized that all of the busses on this particular street only went up and down this street. It was weird. It's like, how do you choose which one of these to get one if they all do the same thing? But people had their preferences, I guess. Anyway, after I finally got back to somewhere familiar, I was exhausted and hadn't eaten and just kind of out of it and out of nowhere, my dad walked up. It's like being in the desert. Is this study abroad stage two?

Ok, this is where life gets interesting. Last week I sent out a bunch of resumes for production companies and I was doing follow up calls on Thursday. Most of them said they didn't offer internships. None of them hung up on me. That was pretty exciting. Then I called one that said that they've worked with a lot of students and I should come in and talk with them to see what we could do. So I was really pumped and set up the meeting for the next day, Friday, because I didn't have any classes, and I'm like yeah, why wait. So he gave me his e mail address and it was @newsweek. I was confused and thinking maybe he used to work there or something, but then I sent the e mail and got a mailer demon, so I called back to get the correct address and it was Newsweek Argentina. The production company I thought I was calling, has the wrong phone number posted on their website about six times. So I went to the meeting at Newsweek, figuring I could explore their art department. It was pretty cool being able to do that. At the end he gave me a bunch of copies of the magazine.

My new weekend thing is buying fresh squeezed Orange Juice and fresh peanuts. Their reminiscent of boston Baked Beans, except fresh. Usually hot. They're so good. Orange Juice is a big deal, because all of the OJ sold in stores is tang. None of it is real. So during the street fair on the weekends, you can get fresh squeezed. If you shop around, you can get competitive prices and some stands even have ice. So I did that yesterday before I collapsed.

It's starting to get cold outside. People are wearing the hats with the earflaps, but they're exaggerating. There's a weird pattern where it'll be cold/rainy during the week, then on the weekends, it's back to swimsuit weather. Very sunny and hot. It's interesting.

TB