sleeeeep debt.

slept in the end at 2am last night and woke up at 9am. i’m bleary-eyed, my head’s pounding and have hardly made up my sleep debt from the night before. it annoys me that the minute i wake up in the morning, the first thing that comes to mind is URECA. been working and worrying about it for so long that it seems to have become a part of me.

yesterday was exhausting. not the worst i’ve had, but close. pulled an all-nighter to finish the paper(s) in time for the deadline on 30 June. and after we submitted the papers on the dot at 5pm, i had to rush down to town to conduct two focus groups i scheduled. the focus groups themselves went decently. but lack of sleep made me lose focus while driving and i ran up a kerb; scratching/denting my car in the process (asdfghjkl;!!) and lost $20 at the end of the night because i simply couldn’t remember details anymore. so i have to make up the $20 on my own. i seem to be forgetting how much money my professor gave me at the start of the focus groups to give as incentives – was it $900 or $1100 in total? did i actually lose more money than $20? i shudder to think so. how could i have been so careless? my memory is foggy.

my Dad’s the best and went out and bought me dinner at midnight. meepok just the way i like it, although surely the chili padi didn’t help my throat much. surely it can’t beat Stanley eating dinner at 2am on his side after we exhausted ourselves writing. my daily routine is all screwed up. and my throat hurts despite my desperate consumption of honey & lemon and blackcurrant lozenges to ease the pain.

i have a dozen errands to run – getting my visa for India; sending my blazers for dry-cleaning; go back to school to return books/borrow another tape recorder; pick up my contacts. i need to talk to OAS/HSS/SCI to sort out some administrative crap about my Linguistics second major. not to mention transcribing the two focus groups done last evening. it’s going to be a tight one and a half weeks to the conference in Delhi – data collection; transcribing; preparing for presentation (slides!!). i seem to not be expected to have a social life. i want time to go shopping! i’m hoping the Zara/Gap sales are still on, but in any case i’ve lost the chance to use my Gap birthday voucher. ): looking for blazers/jeans/sunglasses (they have some great ones online!).

meeting Shaun later for lunch. he’s leaving for New York soon and has been badgering for a meet-up before he departs and never comes back. XD maybe head to the optician if my contacts are in after. so woke up early to handle some email correspondence for URECA to kick off my day, how nice. got to email my professor and reply these WoW player applications. the scheduling of FGs is driving me up the wall. but it looks like i have another one on Sunday. i was about to arrange it on Saturday when i remembered the few gatherings that would be going on – the Fat Finch picnic (which reminds me, it’s potluck!); Edna’s birthday party at Sentosa. initially Aur and i were planning a sleepover at her place Saturday night since Mint came back from Canada yesterday. i didn’t get a chance to pick her up at the airport so i can’t wait to see her soon. but it looks like we’re rescheduling the sleepover till end July when i come back from India and Aur from Korea. BOF drinking game! XDDD and FOC is next week. thinking of making it down a couple of days at least with my peers. fingers crossed. want to make time to hang out with Jin, Jinhe and Jiamin when she’s back to. AHHH. but time’s not on my side. Friday is no good for me. may have a FG in the evening and need to pick up my mom from the airport in the late afternoon.