By: Gabriela Yareliz Gonzalez
It’s been a week of trying to gain composure, learning to avoid people, staying awake to study for tests and walking up to people to interrogate them as sources.
From the beginning of the week, Student Government campaigners were all over the place trying to talk to people, four at a time, as others were trying to get to class. I mastered a look, where in the end, only rare, brave ones walked up to me.
After learning to dodge the ubiquitous flyer dispensers and intimidate them with icy glances, I had two exams this week and a paper to work on. What this means is I haven’t gotten any sleep.
Also this week, I participated in an alcohol focus group where I ended up getting free pizza and a gift card to the UF Bookstore. This was all part of a plan because I really wanted a book from the bookstore, so I figured that participating would get me that much closer to my desired book. It did and my Arabic book should be arriving next week.
Though I had inexplicable joy because I’m finally getting my desired book, I have been too tired this week to truly feel the excitement build. I harassed people at Krishna lunch and at the hub to be my sources for my credit card story for MMC 2100.
The people I used as sources were really nice, though clueless. One of them was Bulgarian and I kept calling him Paul and that was not his name. Plamen is his name.
I learned a lot about interviewing, like how to introduce myself properly, for example. The people I approached were really great about the interviews and merciful.
I got a new issue of the New Yorker, some law view books from FSU and Duke, so all in all my week hasn’t been all too shabby.
The Express mini spring catalog inserted into Feb. 25, 2010 Alligator made me think of beaches and spring break. I have Lab today as the sun rises and the world sleeps. Really all I want to do is sleep and speak “Arabia” in my dreams.
[As posted on zdravogabriela.tumblr.com for my class blog]
GABRIELA YARELIZ 