Tom's Lazy Afternoon
Today is my first day off in a long time, and the last one i will have for a couple of weeks. I am starting to realize that my work schedule is not exactly conducive to being a full-time student, but I think I am managing my time alright. It sucks to be learning dead-line to dead-line and not class to class, and I really hate going to Totalitarianism without having finished the readings, but I just can't do all of it without giving up a lot of the luxuries that are necessary for my sanity. So next week will be 45 hours of work, going to ALL of my classes, writing a paper tomorrow night at hard times, writing a research paper proposal tomorrow night at hard times and forgetting that I am taking more than two classes. If I am lucky, I will actually be productive tonight and tomorrow. If not, I will be more sleep deprived than usual this friday night and it will be devoted so napping, sleeping and feeling shitty. But the good news is a lot of the little things that were driving me crazy were alleviated by a night of drunken bonding and a relatively relaxing weekend. I still need to work out the oboe problem, but I think at this point it is pretty silly to put that into the context of this semester. My ducks feel in a row- I feel like I am doing the time management thing alright, and I am really happy that I have a house full of lovely people, a sunny, warm afternoon, and many cigarettes to chain-smoke while I reread the first three chapters of this book. Feeling saner than I have in a couple of weeks.