A public service announcement to my family, friends, colleagues, important and other irrelevant beings...

Trust me, I am not avoiding you I am just TIRED!

Try to understand this -- in days when my attitude comes to you as off-putting or the bags under my eyes lay lower than the confidence I had in the last exam I had no time to study for.

Please, take no offense to it.

I try my best to manage a full-time job all while being a full-time student and sometimes that becomes a bit much even for me. So don't expect me to be the effervescent Makayla at all times and please don't expect to receive this attitude, because you won't.

I leave class and I head to work, I leave work and I head to class. It seems like an ongoing cycle of tired. Most of the times I imagine myself going out and enjoying a great time but in actuality -- the minute my tiny foot reaches the inner corners of my bedroom I am BEAT! I wake up the next morning, still tired from the night before.

Every now and again, I may spontaneously hit you up just to check-in. Please don't hit me with the "Hey Stranger" or "You must not have any time for me anymore" because I will certainly hang up. I make great attempts to try and maintain a social life while actively staying on top of my "real life". But, if I do fall short, again I ask for you to bear with me. If anything I'm probably just cranky because I need a day's long nap or overwhelmed because I have a weeks worth of work to catch up on. Either way, I'll always find a way to make time for those I care about.

All in all - patience is indeed a virtue.

And I certainly need a hell of a lot of it.