End of the Line
I was at the end of my rope last night. How could things have possibly gone worse?
I was supposed to spend the evening with Mike. We made plans. We were going to watch Narnia.
I got sick. It felt like someone with the strength to rip a New York City telelphone book was pushing on my pelvis.
I got last minute e-mails from Marge and Heather about the RBCA program that was due today. The changes had to be made and they had to be made now. I spent two hours fixing the program for the fifth time.
I got e-mails from Dr. Wahlstrom and Mrs. Cartwright about the recommendation letters I asked for. My scholarship application requested two, sent directly from the writers. Now I had three. To make matters worse, I was having problems with the application again. The application was online in PDF, but had to be submitted as a Word document. After a polite e-mail, I was sent the application in Word format. After filling out the application and finishing my essay, I sent the e-mail. The application would not attach. It claimed the file was "empty." At 1AM, I was in near tears scrambling to make the letter work. Finally, at 2:30AM, it worked. The application was no longer in their nice, professional format, but in a cheap format I created...the only way it would send. I sent a long, lengthy apology letter with my application, apologizing for my lack of professionalism seen in me and my essay.
Then, I had to finish the program. I spent half an hour on the computer at 2:30AM trying to print off the program. At 3AM, it was done.
I crawled into bed. Now I couldn't drop off the papers for Heather in the morning because there was no way I would be able to wake up in time. I was only going to get eight hours of sleep and had to be ready by the time she arrived at 11:30 to pick me up.
*sighs* "Where is my guardian angel?" I asked. "Do I even have one?"
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On a slightly more pleasant note, the program is now completely finished and out of my hair. My booklist is complete and even early! Heather is all set to offer me an internship for this summer that I can completely customize to how much I want to do. Bath and Body Works is going to take me back again for the summer. I'm in the process of searching for a play to audition for this summer.
Other things that still need to be done:
-- Memorize my lines (I have the first scene down cold...now I need to memorize the next nine.)
-- Write my belated journal entry about my field experience
-- E-mail Erin about my lesson plans
-- Set up a time with Allison to get fit for my dress
-- Turn in my B&BW application
Things to look forward to this week:
-- Tuesday with Costina
-- Wednesday with Anna and Justine
-- Thursday is the RBCA presentation
-- Friday I'm free!
-- Saturday is Tony Roma's
-- Sunday I'm back on campus...and vacation ends.
I'm going to make it. I can do this.
~ Celia Sirona Tonks