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Having been off school for 6 and a half school days, I need something to do. I have a Biology internal tomorrow to study for and an English research internal to complete for next Monday and 2 hours of piano practise to do... But I just can't find anything to stimulate me. I'm so used to using my brain 7 hours a day, 5 days a week so when I'm stuck at home with a work-from-home-dad and two needy border collies, I start to go a bit crazy.

Yes I know I'm on the computer using up precious time, but this is new and interesting so I'm giving it a go.

I have to stay home because over the last 5 years of my life I've completely exhausted myself. I moved from Auckland to Dunedin in 2006 and ever since then I've been sick or tired or both. I've had glandular fever a few times and practically no immunity. I've had no proper school holidays because of my involvement in NZSSC and have travelled way too much (i.e. all over NZ, to Rio in Brasil, Buenos Aires in Argentina, and Vancouver, Powell River and Vancouver Island in BC, Canada). Infact, I went to Canada for all the July school holidays after missing the last week of term 2 while I was in Auckland prior to that. Then I came back on the Saturday morning, had a rest on Sunday, and was straight back into school that very next day.

Now, after attempting to travel one last time to Auckland and coming back early, my body has decided to stand up against my busy lifestyle. Well, it would if I had any energy left. I've crashed - almost. My energy intake has been depleted whilst my energy output has increased, it seems, tenfold. So after dragging myself to the doctor, she has ordered me to stay at home for a couple of weeks and do as much nothing as I can. Hmmm. So I've been eating five times a day at least and have cancelled everything under the sun (except for the Sound of Music in which I'm playing Maria) and have succeeded in getting all my teachers to send me work. I got a blood test the day after the doctors and apparently on top of everything I'm severely dehydrated. So I have to drink, like, ten glasses of water a day.

So after all that, I hope you're having a really nice day and enjoying having enough energy to go out into the world and do what you need to do. Secretly I can be a really positive person. Just not today I guess.