just a day, just an ordinary day
halloooooo! so contrary to all appearances, i am in fact still alive and functional, even. well, you know, as much as i ever was, anyway. i've just been ridiculously busy this past week (surprise surprise, no?) and so haven't had time for updating ye olde lj.
hmm, so let's see if i even have anything interesting to tell you. i had a paper due last monday, the day after spring break, but emailed the professor and got an extension. very helpful, even though it meant having two papers due yesterday, but the second one was just a reflection paper that took hardly any effort to knock out. we're solidly into the month and a half of things due all the time that i knew was going to be the end of my semester . . . but knowing it was coming doesn't really make it any more enjoyable. this week i've got a survey-level reading assessment due to my professor's mailbox by 5 pm friday, and even though i wasn't able to interview the teacher until yesterday, i'll be able to do the assessment on thursday and that'll be fine. however, she also expects us to have a math assessment done by tuesday, which is just not happening because i haven't even interviewed the teacher about math yet, and i couldn't do both the reading and math assessments in one day. not happening. also not happening is the progress monitoring she expects turned in the week after next, with at least 6 data points on it. hmm, let's see, if i'm not even doing my initial assessment till thursday and i'll only see the kid twice more before that assignment is due, then at most i can have three data points. yeeeah. she really did not plan these assignments out well.
aside from that, i think i've got a decent handle on my crap for this semester, but i'm SO ready to just be done with it already. i'm rapidly losing motivation, which is all the more impressive because i didn't really think i had that much to begin with. apparently you can have even less than hardly any. i just have all these things planned for the end of the semester and the summer and i'm starting to think about my plans for housing for next year, and i want to be able to focus on all of those things, not put them off because i have assignments that are due today or tomorrow or the next day, which means i should be focusing on them and not the stuff that's still a few months off. but i really want to start looking into the housing thing. i found a couple potential options through looking around on various websites and things, but i need to actually investigate them to see how feasible they really are.
but speaking of still-being-formed end of semester/summer plans, hopefully (*crosses fingers*) brad will be coming down to visit me in early may. i'm done with classes and exams ridiculously early (i think my last finals are may 2), so he'd be able to come down pretty soon after that, at least by my schedule. and the family i babysit regularly for has already said that they'll probably want me more often once classes end and i'm available all the time, and that once my lease is up, i might be able to just stay with them for a few weeks, rather than driving back and forth from my parents' house. because the plan for once camp starts is to just live with my parents; camp is down there and lasts for 9 weeks of the summer, and my summer class(es? that still hasn't been worked out yet, either) is only five weeks of the summer, so it makes much more sense to just be down there. plus i'll hopefully be saving some money to put towards a place for the fall, although i know i don't make *that* much at camp. we'll see what happens.
by the way, the weather has been absolutely gorgeous lately, and it makes me very happy. i was so ready for spring, and i could just stay out in the warm weather forever and be totally happy. i am finally wearing the new wm t-shirt i bought when i was last down there, and i'm wearing flipflops today. :D happy. i can't really think of too much else, other than that it's almost april and holy hell how did that happen? haha. but that's a very good thing, because it means only a month left of this semester, and it can't be over soon enough. all right, love you all, i'm gonna go pretend to be useful now. :)
hmm, so let's see if i even have anything interesting to tell you. i had a paper due last monday, the day after spring break, but emailed the professor and got an extension. very helpful, even though it meant having two papers due yesterday, but the second one was just a reflection paper that took hardly any effort to knock out. we're solidly into the month and a half of things due all the time that i knew was going to be the end of my semester . . . but knowing it was coming doesn't really make it any more enjoyable. this week i've got a survey-level reading assessment due to my professor's mailbox by 5 pm friday, and even though i wasn't able to interview the teacher until yesterday, i'll be able to do the assessment on thursday and that'll be fine. however, she also expects us to have a math assessment done by tuesday, which is just not happening because i haven't even interviewed the teacher about math yet, and i couldn't do both the reading and math assessments in one day. not happening. also not happening is the progress monitoring she expects turned in the week after next, with at least 6 data points on it. hmm, let's see, if i'm not even doing my initial assessment till thursday and i'll only see the kid twice more before that assignment is due, then at most i can have three data points. yeeeah. she really did not plan these assignments out well.
aside from that, i think i've got a decent handle on my crap for this semester, but i'm SO ready to just be done with it already. i'm rapidly losing motivation, which is all the more impressive because i didn't really think i had that much to begin with. apparently you can have even less than hardly any. i just have all these things planned for the end of the semester and the summer and i'm starting to think about my plans for housing for next year, and i want to be able to focus on all of those things, not put them off because i have assignments that are due today or tomorrow or the next day, which means i should be focusing on them and not the stuff that's still a few months off. but i really want to start looking into the housing thing. i found a couple potential options through looking around on various websites and things, but i need to actually investigate them to see how feasible they really are.
but speaking of still-being-formed end of semester/summer plans, hopefully (*crosses fingers*) brad will be coming down to visit me in early may. i'm done with classes and exams ridiculously early (i think my last finals are may 2), so he'd be able to come down pretty soon after that, at least by my schedule. and the family i babysit regularly for has already said that they'll probably want me more often once classes end and i'm available all the time, and that once my lease is up, i might be able to just stay with them for a few weeks, rather than driving back and forth from my parents' house. because the plan for once camp starts is to just live with my parents; camp is down there and lasts for 9 weeks of the summer, and my summer class(es? that still hasn't been worked out yet, either) is only five weeks of the summer, so it makes much more sense to just be down there. plus i'll hopefully be saving some money to put towards a place for the fall, although i know i don't make *that* much at camp. we'll see what happens.
by the way, the weather has been absolutely gorgeous lately, and it makes me very happy. i was so ready for spring, and i could just stay out in the warm weather forever and be totally happy. i am finally wearing the new wm t-shirt i bought when i was last down there, and i'm wearing flipflops today. :D happy. i can't really think of too much else, other than that it's almost april and holy hell how did that happen? haha. but that's a very good thing, because it means only a month left of this semester, and it can't be over soon enough. all right, love you all, i'm gonna go pretend to be useful now. :)