It's getting cold and I like it not one bit. Thanks to the climate, I've developed a new reaction to stress - uncontrollable shivering. It used to be that my body responded to exams with appetite loss, nausea, dry retching, diarrhoea, or inconvenient periods of lethargy. But last night, while trying to tackle the twin horrors of multivariable calculus and genetics mugging for midterms, my body gave up trying to rein in the stress hormones - my hands started shaking. The rest of my body followed suit. I could hardly hold a pen properly, or concentrate on math; I couldn't stop laughing, and I got so hysterical I offered to balance a chemical equation and worse still, I got it wrong. It was like OD-ing on stress-induced adrenaline.
I never did that sort of thing before. My body never did that sort of thing to me before. But that was then (oh for the humidity and warmth of home), and now, thanks to the gusty Providence winds (that cuts right through your clothes if you don't have a windbreaker on) and the falling temperatures, it's happening a lot more often.
words were spilled on Tuesday, October 18, 2005
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... yes, well, this is why i refused to leave the country. cold weather makes me depressed. if it were me i'd probably have killed myself before winter was out.
wrap up warm. love, and take care.
wrap up warm. love, and take care.
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: 5:53 AM
: 5:53 AM
hey woon teng here... do take care k! and rest well! exams are important.. but ur health is even more important..
need us to send more jackets/sweaters over? haha..
need us to send more jackets/sweaters over? haha..
oh no, brenda takes one more step down the spiral into made-scientistdom. Take care over there... the weather in H is getting awful too, and I totally understand about missing humidity! Sometimes I just stand in the shower to soak it in..
heh, i fully intend to buy more warm clothing. will probably be going shopping at a factory outlet in a week's time or so.
mornings are awful. the central heating in my dorm hasn't been turned on yet, so the toilets are quite chilly in the mornings. a warm bed is so much more inviting.
cold weather also makes me lazier wrt laundry and showering. heh.
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mornings are awful. the central heating in my dorm hasn't been turned on yet, so the toilets are quite chilly in the mornings. a warm bed is so much more inviting.
cold weather also makes me lazier wrt laundry and showering. heh.
