What a day. Woke up early around 7:30, lamped in bed for a few minutes, finished getting ready around 7:55. Had breakfast with the guy I met/spotted a dollar for the dryer at the Porter Apartments laundry -- need to get his name -- talked about his apprehension about asking a girl he hangs out with often out on a date.
Felt super tired with a medium-grade headache and what felt like some kind of light fever (feeling cold and warm at the same time) the entire day up until 8:30pm or so. Walked to classes, but instead of my longer strides I went for shorter strides and tried to take it easy. In order: Financial Aid office (figuring out middle class scholarship disbursement -- the young nice man who helped me said it would disburse 2-3 days to a week from now), then Humanities Lecture building for Linguistics (which felt super long because of the new material and my ongoing headache), then College 9's Social Sciences 1 building for Psyc 100 discussion section (also felt super long for the same reasons, but also because I felt thirsty the entire time and my seat was especially hard/uncomfortable). Walked and talked with Emily after class -- learned she lives in Porter Apartments as a 2nd year student. A lot closer than I thought! We split sometime down the road -- I planned to go to Kresge but the fact that Kresge and Porter are literally nearby each other totally slipped my mind. I should've walked with her. Hoping I can apologize for running off today next week...
Knees and ankles felt a little achy, as was typical of this kind of immune response. Texted Richard Paseman and we met at Rachel Carson Diner. Rachel Carson menu tonight was disappointing: breakfast for dinner, and chicken nuggets and fries. Really? Made a turkey lettuce red onion sandwich -- didn't add enough sauce but it was good. I didn't have much of an appetite either. Me and Richard talked about ongoing social developments with his roommates (one of them commutes to/from Santa Barbara down south to meet his girlfriend, and consistently, from Thursday to Sunday), and his dorm at large. The conversation shifted to manga/anime (revealed that I did binge a few chapters of Uzumaki -- interestingly he had never heard/read it), his girlfriend's light novel with illustrations, and his own complex screenplay of a movie about a futuristic biotech corporatocracy whereby the major (like, owning 90% of market activity) healthcare corporation totally fell through after a serious cyberattack destroyed all the software in their research and development labs and their hospitals. Death tolls rising. In the wake of this seemingly random incident are a femme fatale, her bodyguard, and her father (the father of which is leading the remaining healthcare company which until now had "only" acquired 10% market share but now has to work in/with the power vacuum); and a supersolider, a highly sophisticated and experimental embodied AI lady, and a researcher on the run with the AI lady (all three of these characters were part of the 90% company albeit at various levels in the organization -- as far as I know, none of them were executives). Supposedly this embodied AI lady is the key to making sure the 90% healthcare corporation stays dead, but that's in Part 2...
Just a lot of talk and communication today. Exhausted physically but invigorated socially. I feel like I'm getting a grasp on this -- like I'm feeling the edges of a new skill.