A little blog for a restless mind

Regretting

Crap. I've exhausted myself too much yesterday. There's this local hill that's just perfect for an exercising jog or run, lots of paths all over it. Yesterday I've ran all accross it and then around it. Okay, not all around, only semi-circle, since I already ran accross it. I assumed my old tempo from 3 years ago. This tempo just fell naturally to me as I dropped my reservation from one day previously when I watched very carefully not to overdo myself. And I didn't run as far then. I felt well, and health improved the next day, so I thought, what the heck, let's try the real thing. But this damn tempo is too much for my present condition. There were quite a few times I had to stop because I ran out of breath. Then I started to run again, with a slower pace, but after about 3 minutes I noticed myself running with that old faster pace, and I slowed down again... And story repeated itself a few times. 60 minutes elapsed between me leaving the flat and returning, which is phenomenal for what I endured in my present condition. But it was too much. I slept very bad, faintly, I've wakened up a lot, I was simply too exhausted to sleep. And today my nose is itching me the whole day. Damn damn damn. I'm not exercising today, I even left out the karate class. Not only energy, I don't even have the time. I've spent 4 hours in the morning playing the navigator for my sister, showing her where the student organisation is, showed her literally to the student office providing students with info on available rooms for rent, escorted her to check out one such room, then we once got to a place, but she didn't have the exact address, and the woman renting the room sounded a bit weird, and the surroundings there didn't feel right, and, well, the whole thing was for nothing, time wasted, and then next we got to a place but she forgot the name of the person, and she didn't write down even the contact phone number, so I was like... err... dumbstruck, since freaking out wouldn't help. She didn't have a photo for the monthly bus pass, so I've shown her to a photographer which made her 4 photos for documents. Then I showed her where to go to have the bus pass done. It was over noon when I couldn't ignore my absence from work anymore, luckilly we were near my office. And, of course, my sister came with me to the office to browse the web for additional info for available rooms. That student organisation has its database on available rooms accessible over the web, which is good. My sister was commenting to me and asking me something about every damn advert, which is bad. I had to even come up with an answer on how to reach her faculty department, which is based far out of the town. Doh, I don't know why I was so eager to find a bus, when there are about 20 trains each days there and back. 25 minutes and she's there. With the train. All in all, it was 14:00 when she left. I just lost hope then I'd get anything done today. Because then I was providing the help line for her on where something is, where she is, and how to get anywhere. And she had a detailed map. And yes, she can even read those numbers and street names on plates attached to every building. Surprising.
I'm just... exhausted. I shouldn't have overexhausted myself yesterday. And my schedule for today is blown apart. And I'm providing my sister with a place to sleep. She's got some stuff to take care of at her faculty tomorrow, and then she'll probably go on the room hunt again. I'll have to leave her out in the cold tomorrow; now she knows enough about the whole town so she should have no problems. I have too much work, now that I did only half of the stuff planned for today. Man, when I look at her I just don't know how the hell did I manage. For as much as I can tell, I just came to town, bought myself a map, and went on and about. It was just... simple! And she's having it even more simple, with all the student material for freshmen she got from the local student organisation when she enrolled. I didn't have that.
Shit, my whole body is asleep from yesterday, I'm still at the office, will be for at least an hour, and then I'll just go home and drop into bed. I pray to goddess to restore my energy for tomorrow.

posted by AlesS @ 9/30/2004 07:28:00 PM