First entry in quite a while

It's been such a long time since I've posted something on here. I guess I've been really busy. Well, not completely. A couple weeks ago was spring break. That was nice. For the first weekend of it, I went to Uniontown to visit my friend Ingrid. We went to the Pittsburgh zoo. It was a nice zoo, but by no means the best zoo I've ever seen. I will say I was impressed by the aquarium there. It's the first zoo I've been to that had an aquarium. But as for the other animal exhibits, I've definitely seen better. The Milwaukee zoo has many more. Even the Green Bay (technically Suamico) N.E.W. zoo is better, in my opinion. But it was nice to go somewhere new. After that, we were quite hungry. We were going to go the Cheesecake Factory, but they had a 15-30 minute wait. I've heard that's not bad for one of those places, but we were too hungry to wait that long. So, we went to the Irish pub across the street from it. They had good food there. We ended up having cheesecake for dessert. They made it with Bailey's Irish Cream. It was pretty strong. I was getting a little buzz from it.

After that, I drove home to Wisconsin. It was nice to be home. I've really been missing it lately. I think it's partly because it's relaxing at home. I don't get much down time while I'm here. I'm always busy grading papers, working on problem sets for the class I'm grading for, working on research, or something else related to school. So my down time is limited at best. It was nice to not have anything to worry about for an entire week. During that week, I finished reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Great book! It sets a high standard for the Half Blood Prince. I think every book in the series gets better and better. They also get longer and longer, which means that by the end of the series, the book will be over 1000 pages long.

On the way back from home, I stopped overnight in Cleveland. I always like being able to take my time on the drive back. I was a little pissed off, though. I went to bed at around 2am (because I had to finish Harry Potter) and some idiot that had the hotel room before I did set the alarm for 3:30am. I was NOT pleased. So, I didn't get as much sleep as I would have liked. But then I made the rest of the drive back to my apartment and unpacked.

Last week was the first week back after spring break. And I had to hit the ground running. I had lots of papers to grade yet, a presentation to give on Friday, and other things I needed to get done. Add on top of that fighting off an illness, and it seemed like I was drowning in stuff I needed to get done. Needless to say, with all that stress, the illness had an advantage over me.

So, now I'm sick. It's not my typical sick, though. I just have this sort of dizzy feeling. And I'm run down, but that's not an incredibly new feeling to me. I always feel run down. I never feel like I can get enough sleep, even when I do. It always seems like I'm running on empty. The dizziness is something new though. That's the only reason I know I'm sick. Hopefully it will get better soon. Of course, it would definitely get better if I would just slow down, but that's not going to happen. I don't have the time the just rest.

Well, I guess I don't have too much more to say. I should really go to bed relatively soon. I need to get the rest while I can get it. And maybe tomorrow I'll be in a better mood, both physically and mentally.