Pseudonymous Ramblings by Psychobunny

Have you ever...

gotten so involved in working on something that you actually forgot you had class? Because I just did, and it sucks.

I'm worried about other things--I have a test tomorrow, a paper and a quiz due this week, a test coming up next week, and relatives in the hospital--and I'm trying frantically to get everything done so I can go home and see them this weekend (and have my birthday party, but that's beside the point :) ). I also have an hour-and-a-half gap from the time I leave lab to the time I have to be in my next class. And I know I get absorbed when I'm working on a paper, but I started anyway, and promptly forgot all about class. It's the first class I've ever actually skipped (I neglected to go to one last semester because I was sick and there was a huge ice storm, so I neglected to check for myself after being told classes were cancelled until 11 simply because I didn't want to go out, but half the class didn't show up either, so it doesn't count).

I actually called the professor to apologize and told her about the situation. As it turned out, she and the entire class were more worried about me than I was about missing class, which was actually kind of amusing. One of my roommates is in the same class, so I can get the notes from her, and I can talk to one of the TAs if I don't understand the assignment. And I've now programmed my computer to remind me when I have classes that aren't one right after another, so hopefully that will take care of everything and this will never happen again. But I still feel terrible about it!

posted by Psychobunny at 5:32 PM