True story.
So I have two papers due on Thursday and two tests also scheduled for that day. Am I preparing for those things in any way right now while I have the chance? Nope. Ok, so I did my homework for the week so I don't have to worry about that on top of all of that other stuff but that's about as far as it goes. Haven't done the research for one of the papers. Haven't started either one of them. Haven't studied for either of the tests yet. I'm going to hate myself come Monday.
Plus I have to get DSK's Homecoming team ready this week and we need to at least practice for some of the events. Something is going to have to suffer this week and as much as I don't want it to be my schoolwork, it probably will end up being just that. Struggle.
In other news, my parents are coming to visit me next weekend and possibly my brother too. Wanna know something funny? Now that we don't live together, my brother and I are actually becoming friends. It's totally weird but I like it.
Random thing I did yesterday: I was bored (still procrastinating the homework) so I got in my car and drove an hour and a half to the cottages my grandparents owned for the first fifteen years of my life. If it hadn't been raining I would have stayed a while but since it was, in fact, pouring I parked my car in the empty drive, sat there for a few minutes, and then turned around and drove back to Kalamazoo. Everything looked just like it did five years ago when I thought I was looking at it for the last time. It would have been more fun if my brother and my cousins were with me but I was alone and I didn't want to sit there in the rain by myself. I think I just needed some perspective. I needed to remember that I had a life before college and that I'll have a life after college. It's easy for me to get caught up in everything I'm doing here and forget that all of this really is just another short chapter in my life. Yeah, I have to be focused on this stuff right now but I also have to remember that if it all doesn't work out exactly the way I pictured it, it's still going to be okay.
I've been thinking about the end of college a lot lately. About what I want and how to get what I want. I like the non-profit stuff I'm studying but when it comes down to it, I still just want to be a writer. I want the house with the white picket fence and the golden retriever in the yard. I want lots of trees that turn gorgeous colors in the fall and a lake nearby that I can drive a speedboat on. I want the husband and the SUV and a book deal. Am I going about getting there the wrong way? I don't know.
I think for now a nap sounds kinda nice.
Plus I have to get DSK's Homecoming team ready this week and we need to at least practice for some of the events. Something is going to have to suffer this week and as much as I don't want it to be my schoolwork, it probably will end up being just that. Struggle.
In other news, my parents are coming to visit me next weekend and possibly my brother too. Wanna know something funny? Now that we don't live together, my brother and I are actually becoming friends. It's totally weird but I like it.
Random thing I did yesterday: I was bored (still procrastinating the homework) so I got in my car and drove an hour and a half to the cottages my grandparents owned for the first fifteen years of my life. If it hadn't been raining I would have stayed a while but since it was, in fact, pouring I parked my car in the empty drive, sat there for a few minutes, and then turned around and drove back to Kalamazoo. Everything looked just like it did five years ago when I thought I was looking at it for the last time. It would have been more fun if my brother and my cousins were with me but I was alone and I didn't want to sit there in the rain by myself. I think I just needed some perspective. I needed to remember that I had a life before college and that I'll have a life after college. It's easy for me to get caught up in everything I'm doing here and forget that all of this really is just another short chapter in my life. Yeah, I have to be focused on this stuff right now but I also have to remember that if it all doesn't work out exactly the way I pictured it, it's still going to be okay.
I've been thinking about the end of college a lot lately. About what I want and how to get what I want. I like the non-profit stuff I'm studying but when it comes down to it, I still just want to be a writer. I want the house with the white picket fence and the golden retriever in the yard. I want lots of trees that turn gorgeous colors in the fall and a lake nearby that I can drive a speedboat on. I want the husband and the SUV and a book deal. Am I going about getting there the wrong way? I don't know.
I think for now a nap sounds kinda nice.