Sleep is important

If there is anything I have learned this past week, is that sleep is very very important. And I think what goes along the same lines, is that health is very very important. Today I felt drained and exhausted (a common sentiment of mine this year)and I also felt unmotivated to work or be productive even when I had a list down to my knees of important things to do. I attribute my feelings of fatigue and apathy to not enough bedrest and/or lack of exercise.

So lesson learned: SLEEP!

On a different note, our annual chinese new year dinner went off without a hitch yesterday evening. It was a disappointing turn-out but amazingly run. No glitches, no burnt food, no stressed out members close to tears. I wonder what we did right this time? I made tomato-fried rice with shrimp. Also on the menu were dumplings, spring rolls, black bean beef, thai curry...the list goes on. Needless to say it was a scrumptious feast! It is sad to think that this is my last year here at Queen's and that all this will inevitably come to an end. Sigh... There is only February and March left before exams and then...who knows?

I also wonder what my relationship with my residents will be like after this year. I wouldn't be surprised if I never saw them again. I wouldn't like that of course, because I am surprisingly comfortable around them- even the athletic, popular, good-looking ones- and this is very very rare for me. They engage me, connect with me, challenge me and involve me in ways no other group has ever done. I am actually not in any way excluded here, which has never happend to me before. I really cherish what I have here, and I wonder what will happen at the end of my Donship. In a way, I think that we will part ways and cut ties completely. Afterall, my role in their lives is over and that is that.

I am noticing a dark timbre to this blog. Basically, I am feeling mortality. The mortality of my undergrad, and the mortality of relationships.