Sometimes my brain is like a computer. Not a flash high speed gizmo one, more like the one my family owned in the late nineties. I say this for many reasons. For instance, it took about twenty minutes to boot up and that is how long I spend staring at the mirror in the morning before I can even think of getting ready. To install anything new you had to trowel through My Documents and delete half a dozen things to make room: I can only hold a certain amount of information before my brain deletes 'unimportant' information such as how to navigate home or boil an egg.
One day I had a major computer brain malfunction. I mean, there is never a day where it doesn't have to be 'rebooted'. But this was a major glitch.
It all started with my boyfriends Landscape Architecture assignment. It was due the next day and, to make sure he didn't give up and go to bed, I stayed up with him all night and helped him. I was cutting out mini trees and holding freshly glued cardboard in place until 2.30 am. By the time I got to bed and went to sleep it was about 3.30 am. I was stuffed. I slept like a log.
Until 6.30 am, when I had to get up for uni. At this stage work and uni were crazy. I was working 7 day weeks, starting work at 5am every Saturday and Sunday morning. I felt like I never slept, but 3 hours was a new record. I dragged myself out of bed, stared at the mirror for twice the normal amount of time. I don't even remember how I got dressed, it is all a blur. The same goes for how I managed to drive myself to uni.
This day was a pretty boring one. For uni one day a week we had to go to the teaching hospital to learn some practical skills. This day was particularly boring, I almost went to sleep a dozen times but somehow I managed to make it through. We were in the last part of the days class, talking about a crappy part of assessment. it was basically the same ridiculous assignment we had just done but even harder. I hated it. It was a stupid assignment and everyone knew it, even our clinical facilitator. I decided to express my dislike for the assessment.
So I said, 'It sucks peanuts'.
Brain: That doesn't even make sense. Who would suck peanuts? I think you actually meant something else.
So what I actually said was: THAT SUCKS PENIS.
In front of the whole class and the clinical lecturer.
Goddamn crappy auto correct...
I think my brain requires a major upgrade.