My christmas holidays
Well the holidays were not a complete loss for me. I attended raids and I took plenty of interesting notes but I'm not really satisfied by how things turned out. My thesis advisor insisted that I change my organizational method and my sister unloaded her horribly spoiled dog on me for the holidays. So while this holiday season was not a complete and total disaster I did not accomplish half of what I set out to do. Instead I attempted to cope with the growing pains of a new organizational system while having to struggle with an animal that did not want to take a walk around the block with me. The three walks a day became a sword of Damocles hanging over my head making it virtually impossible for me to even attempt to adapt to a new organizational system. As I am writing this the dog is under my computer desk attempting to ingratiate itself with me, I am counting the days before my sister takes that stupid spoiled parasite away from me.
My family seems to labor under the impression that I do nothing of value with my time and that it is therefore acceptable to demand that I do things for them. That I could have goals or even plans does not occur to them. One little favor seems to become a never ending list of small tasks that apparently need my urgent attention. Ideally I should have had a christmas break where I could take my time to contemplate how I was going to organize my time in the field. Instead I had a miserable vacation of procrastination and pointless family tasks. Now that this is over I am taking charge and attempting to organize myself because I wish to continue to do well in school although apparently doing a million little chores for my family seems to take precedence over my needs.
My family seems to labor under the impression that I do nothing of value with my time and that it is therefore acceptable to demand that I do things for them. That I could have goals or even plans does not occur to them. One little favor seems to become a never ending list of small tasks that apparently need my urgent attention. Ideally I should have had a christmas break where I could take my time to contemplate how I was going to organize my time in the field. Instead I had a miserable vacation of procrastination and pointless family tasks. Now that this is over I am taking charge and attempting to organize myself because I wish to continue to do well in school although apparently doing a million little chores for my family seems to take precedence over my needs.