Sunday, November 17, 2002  12:10 pm  <|>
<166> Writing a revolution: I'm always sitting here coming up with lists of things I have to do for the upcoming week, month, year, etc... otherwise more simply called a to-do list. This is very useful for me usually. It keeps me from forgetting about the little things while pushing my to do the big things that are always on my mind (and when you have as much going on in your life as I do right now it's a wonder anything can be kept straight) But I try to keep it all straight best I can. Anyway, I've decided today (as I do most days with limited success) to be very productive and make up a list, go right down it, and get what needs to be done. Let's see what kind of a start I'm off to... it's almost 1pm and I'm still in my sleep clothes, but that's ok because this will prevent me from going out anywhere too quickly and becoming completely distracting from today's tasks. Hobbes is happily darting across the room back and forth because he's discovered the network cables that lay in one corner... must get around to taping those down at some point before he pulls them out and we trip on them.

In the last few days I've kind of come to certain conclusions, rather big ones if you will, concerning my life and where it's going. I have a great department for my major at school, classes are going pretty well even though we get a lot of work, my internship isn't demanding in the slightest but it's cool to do, and my real job I feel gets too neglected which is one of the things I definitely intend to change from this point on. Getting myself back on track is really what I need and I find it best to push myself and keep myself busy from day to day. I know people are always telling me to take it easy, but I do feel like I take breaks and have free time. I certainly time this time at least once or twice once the weekend comes and I'm not in a constant state of doing homework that is due the next day. It'll all come together in the end though I suppose.

So I will get what I can done today and hopefully continue to be productive in the upcoming week. It's registration week, yes that time again where we all stay up the entire night because our school's registration system sucks immensely. This year our camp out takes place Monday night until Tuesday morning, yep that's tomorrow night folks, lucky, lucky me! Especially lucky since I have an extra procedure before dialysis tomorrow morning, which will make me run later than usual on a Monday and probably lead to me getting less rest too but we'll see how that goes. I can sleep some at registration though if I really want to. We're going to have the standard laptop with dvd player there to watch all the movies we want, probably stock up on the snacks, grab my pillow, and I'll be complete. Hopefully I'll get all the classes I want, I'd better but you never know... I'm being a real art student next semester. I'm signing up for Glassblowing, Screenprinting, and Bookbinding. Have I gone crazy you think? No I'm not really a real art student in my mind, but it's about time I was one since I've been going to art school for three years, don't you think? I may end up having to drop one of those classes though, as I'm doing this internship which will count as 3 credits onto next semester I hope, but if that happens then they might make me drop a class automatically because otherwise I'll be "taking" too many credits next semester. I signed up for as many as I could to start figuring I'll drop one or two next semester. I'd rather get myself a place in a class and then figure out what to do with it. The other classes I will be trying for as of now besides my required multimedia studio and business seminar class are perception (which fulfills our science/math requirement) and is supposed to be easy and somewhat funny/interesting too even though you don't even have to go to the class a lot and issues in multimedia seminar which says it is taught by a WHYY (public television) staff member. That seems odd and interesting all together. It's a short class, only 1.5 credits, but so is screenprinting so that balances out. Plus my advisor said that will be an awesome class and even though I'll be cutting it close going basically right from dialysis to there with no break, I should be able to talk to the teacher and work something out if I run a little late from week to week. So we'll see. Anyway, I think it's time to go be productive and dig up a little food for myself too, I'm starving. Let's see if I can really get done all I intend to...