Holy Moly... How Much School Stuff Can One Week Hold???

          Okay, random thoughts that I’m sure many college students are having, but what’s up with this week???? It’s like every class is seeing how much work can be jammed into one week without making all of us quit; which would seem counterproductive this late in the semester.

          For example, let me share what all I found on my calendar for this week when I sat down with it a couple of days ago. As you all know for English we have paper #4 which is the longest one, to finish the rough draft, dredge through our tired brains to workshop three papers written by classmates and then revise ours and turn them in. On top of that we have our two blog posts & comments to write. As much as I hate to admit it, I kind of enjoy writing my blog posts and might, maybe miss it when class is over. It remains to be seen if I’ll miss it enough to continue, only time will tell. For my Economics class there are two chapters due by Friday (normally we only have 1 a week) plus a test that has to be taken no later than next Monday. For Pathophysiology there is a three chapter unit due Wednesday, plus our fourth lecture test by Saturday and the second lab test is early next week. And then my final class, Lifetime Wellness, the instructor opened up the assignments for the rest of the semester… yes, we have until the 9^th to finish them, but we have four weeks of assignments that were made available late last week. Sigh… I’ll get them done, I have most of a plan in place to make it happen, I’m just feeling a bit overloaded with all of this, plus work, plus family life weighing down on me currently.

          As any of you that have read my blog know this has been a really bad semester in my personal life. That hasn’t changed at all, in fact things tend to get worse as time goes on. I just need to make it a bit longer and will be making changes that will make my personal life better in the end. It’s still going to be rough for quite some time, but it’s going to start taking tiny steps toward getting better. I know it.

          Saturday night, a night that actually factored into my plan to get homework done, get some sleep and be able to function at work later this week found me hanging out with a bunch of people at my house. Yes, I will admit it was relaxing in a way, I just wish it hadn’t all been people I formerly considered my friends, but have found over the past year I’m not able to trust, so therefore feel on edge and guarded around them. I always enjoy sitting near a fire, so that part at least was pleasant, and since my husband planned it all & decided not to tell anyone what to bring beyond what they wanted to drink I got to have a few grins at how much he wound up spending at the grocery store to fund this evening. I know from being the one that typically plans this kind of thing that when you’re talking about seven adults and eight kids (mostly teenagers) that the only way to survive is to delegate food out to all the families. Learning experience for him, especially since he likes to buy name brand foods. Darn. J I bet he learned his lesson for next time.

          Signing off for tonight. Catch you all next week!