Cold and Flu Season is Here

I do not like being sick. I guess that's the price to pay when you live in a city where the weather changes every five minutes.

For a couple of weeks now, I've been coughing up a lung, and maybe some other organs I don't know exist.  I did go to the doctor and I am a mess.  I have a lot of chest congestion and I'm on a lot of antibiotics.  I still have a long way for the coughing to end completely.  While I wait, I'm going to keep working on my assignments, learn all I can in school and strive for good grades. I can't allow anything to stop me from achieving my goals. 

I wrote an all-new poem yesterday during a break I gave myself while studying for an upcoming quiz.  It's called "Panic."

Panic

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Oh my god
I can't breathe
Walls are caving in
Am I in a box?
It's too dark
I can't see
What's that noise?
Nose, gone
Hands and feet, stiff
Eyes glued shut
Mouth sewn shut
Head, stiff
Body, cold
Heart's not beating
I can't move
Oh, eternal slumber
Come to me

Midterms and Bedbugs

The Midterm season has passed with a lot of insanity, blow-ups, and freak-outs I experienced in only two days.   I got two Cs, a B and an A in my classes. I’m proud of the fact that I didn’t get a D on my midterms; I want to work the Cs I got up to a B, a B into an A, and keep my A where it is and work to maintain it.  Last semester, I almost received straight A’s and I was proud of that accomplishment.  I know of people who have dropped the classes I’m in. I’ve always wondered why they would do that, I can speculate on that later. The only thing I’m worried about is me and keeping my grades from dropping.

On a more serious note, I saw something move on my bedroom wall as though it belonged there. Grabbing my camera, I got a closer look and saw that it was a bedbug. Immediately, my mind raced to the time in Washington, DC where I experienced bedbugs for the very first time.  I have a fear of all bugs, even those that are seemingly innocent. When I see one of those creatures, I want to run for the hills. I showed the picture to my landlord, and she called an exterminator to come out and kill them.  As an added precaution, I put everything I owned in plastic bags, washed my clothes at the Laundromat, got mattress and pillow protectors, I tossed out my bedding, got new bedding and the room is spotless.  The exterminator came over and put a bedbug bomb in my bedroom. 

Bugs should be eradicated from this planet! Photo by Sharon Pearson

Since the exterminator came, I haven’t seen any bedbugs come out of the walls as of yet.  My landlord has the receipt from the visit. 

I wasn’t feeling well last week when I posted a video.  I’m working on a new video and it’s going to be on something I am involved in at school.  

Film Debut

I fooled around with my webcam and made this little video.  I would like to make more.

All film content is made by me.

It's That Time

Last week, three invitations to open houses came to my home.  The first one was from Northwestern University, the second one came from Loyola University, and the third one came from DePaul University.  As a student who's about to graduate from a community college, I'm interested mostly in their programs for journalism.  I called each school, and accepted their invitations to come and see the schools before I filled out the applications and paid the fees. 

It's the time of year I need to plan out my personal essays and look deeper into schools I intend on transferring to once I graduate from Truman College.  I'm in my second-to-last semester of obtaining an Associate of the Arts degree and I want to be very sure of which school I want to attend next Fall. 

The first of the three schools I'm visiting at the end of the week is Northwestern. I have to get directions to the building on that campus I'm supposed to go to for the open house session.