Breathe

Last night, as I was trying to go to bed, my heart was racing. I wasn't sure why.

There could have been a lot of reasons. It might have been the cheeseburger, french fries, cookie, brownie, and Gatorade I had for dinner. It might have been that my roommate was getting sick and I was trying to fight it off. It might have been that somebody took the dry erase board off my door and chucked it at the bike rack outside. Who would do such a thing? I suspected everyone at first. I thought someone might have something against me, but the consensus around here is that it was a random act of drunkenness by a stranger.

It might have been things in the future, too. I was anxious about having to give an impromptu speech in my tech writing/speech class. I would have to choose one of three topics presented to me, and I would have three minutes to come up with a three-minute speech. I was also nervous about teaching people simple phrases in Esperanto, a language I'm not entirely fluent in. (Both of those things are tomorrow, by the way.)

I felt like a wreck. Actually, I just felt really awake. I lay in bed for an hour or two, trying to figure out how to calm my nerves. I got up for a drink of water. I played the guitar a little. Finally, I decided to go out to the common room and hang out there till I got tired. I was chatting it up for about 45 minutes. Since I had class at the asscrack of dawn, I decided I should finally go back to bed. And when I got there, I didn't feel my heart pounding.

Why did it happen?

Incidentally, the class was my physics lab. I didn't think there was anything worse than having physics lab at 7:25 A.M. on Mondays. But when I got back to my room after the lab, I realized that there was. The fire alarm had gone off right after I left.

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