Bad blogger bad! Not posting for nearly a month! Whoops, sorry about that, I was doing so well for a bit too…. So where the hell have I been?

Well, remember that thing called real life? I know it’s a stretch, but I’m actually a college student there. That whole college thing is stealing my soul at the moment. I have been so ungodly busy this semester that I’ve had barely any time or energy. For instance, I wrote this blog post during a 40 minute break between my intro to psych class and a make-up organic chem lab because I didn’t have my puter with me (my psych class got out early, so instead of a 10 minute run to the next class, I had 40 minutes).

Anatomy, Physiology, & Pathophysiology (APP for short) has kept me the most busy. A few week sago we had a lab quiz, protocol due, a test, AND a 6-8 page paper due in the same week. Like, WTF?! Not cool. I also meet with my study/lab group at least once a week for a few hours (one week I met with them 4 times!). We’re currently working on a semester long project which I’ll eventually write a blog post on.

I also am taking 4 other classes on top of APP which also have work and tests and what not. I honestly think I was on crack when I made my schedule or something. Last semester I had time in my schedule for naps…. this time not so much so I have been constantly tired. I have classes every day of the week minus Saturday (yes, I even have a class on Sunday), so my one day off has turned into a sleep day. I usually am in bed until 2-3pm and then have some work to do. I know that’s probably not the best thing I could do for myself, buttttttt I desperately need the catch up on sleep.

I’ve also been going to the gym about 4 times a week! Good thing is my muscular pain has gone down slightly (YAY!), but it’s bad at the same time because my sleep hasn’t gotten any better and I think my joint pain is actually getting worse (BOO!). Blah. I go to the rheumatologist on Monday so I’ll be having a nice chat with her on her “magic treatment”.

Another horrible RL thing is that my family has just experienced a loved one passing away. He died about two weeks ago and was totally unexpected. He was diagnosed with cancer in October of 2008 in his esophagus. They ended up removing the part that was cancerous, and replacing it with intestinal tract. Cancer didn’t spread, but the doctors messed up and there was a leak in his esophagus now where it was sutured.  That took a couple months to heal (he was even in the hospital for Christmas) and he lost loads of weight since he wasn’t allowed to eat anything but popsicles. In late January/early February he went home and the leak closed. He was FINALLY starting to feel better, putting weight on, able to go up and down stairs- and his spirit was coming back full force, and then his heart gave out February 21st and passed. Totally devastating after he had gone through all that. Last week we had the wake and funeral and it was very beautiful and awesome considering the circumstances. He’ll be missed, but at least he’s not suffering anymore.

So, with all that, I’m sure some of you have noticed I’ve been MIA in SL. This is due to my lack of energy and time. SL is just not helping me either, it sucks tons of energy for me since it is a communication with others based world. This takes more energy for me than most people because at night my coherence and cognition just plummets and I sound like an idiot, and then try super hard to not sound like one which makes me more tired. Viscous circle. Also, there’s drama in SL and I really really have no time or patience for it. If you want to get in touch with me, leave an offline with your msn/yahoo name and I’ll talk to you there. You can also follow me on plurk by either going to my page or checking out my little blurb thing on my sidebar here at the blog. I update all the time. Create an account if you don’t have one, it really is awesome.

Since SL isn’t doing it for me, World of Warcraft has once again become my game of choice. It allows me to destress (wooo killing) and I don’t have to socialize with people if I don’t want to. EPIC WIN! Matt (RL boof) and I finally hit 80 and got ourselves all geared for heroics, so the game is taking a turn that I’ve never played before. If you’re interested- you can see my 80 resto druids character page here. We’ve also become good friends with another player, and we’re all grouped up together for heroics. Between the 3 of us there is a healer, DPS, and tank. This is awesomesauce (for those of you that play WoW) because it is sooooo easy to find 2 DPSers for heroics. Last night Matt spammed looking for group channel only once for 2 dps for a heroic, and got 8 whispers within 30 seconds. It was grand. If you DO play WoW- I’m on Hydraxis US servers and my main characters are named Lynja and Zaelyn, whisper me sometime!

Next week is spring break- a full week with no classes. SCORE! I’ll be around much more and you may see me in SL. After that, I can’t promise anything. I miss you all much and hopefully things die down soon so I can get decent sleep and be able to log in. See you laterz!

xoxo,

Alexa