i love new toys

hit the snooze, as i'm likely to do, and ended up sleeping through chapel, though i used the time to look over my script and tweak my forensics speech.  was resentful during classes because they just keep adding MORE WORK which is totally unfair at this point in the game.  afterwards i babysat for the first time since high school, but spent a delightful hour and a half getting to know the kids.  went home and got a new snazzy computer that so far i LOVE, and then fought the rest of the evening to concentrate on homework instead of my new gadget.  i can't help it...did you know it has fingerprint identification?!  and a webcam??  and video making programs? and it looks freaking sweet??

chiseling away

how on earth can teachers possibly be introducing new projects NOW? at this time in the semester? really?!? i've seriously been wishing that i didn't need to sleep, because it would help me get so much more accomplished. tonight i regained some social life--went to the soap opera and then talked with a friend until past midnight, at which time i returned to my room to start on the large pile of insurmountable tasks to complete for tomorrow...

it goes on

Classes flew by as usual, this time in anticipation of the hours I would spend in the comm department, once again working on the speech I dreaded yesterday. After six hours (with various interruptions) I have a working rough draft of a rhetorical criticism....and a migraine, and feelings of time lost, and other neglected homework to complete, and laundry to do, and a room to clean...

pulled

looming over the entire day was the knowledge that the entire night would be devoted to understanding, critiquing, and explaining mickey martyr in a speech i wasn't thrilled about having to write in the first place. spent the evening playing the procrastination game, which ultimately means a sleep-deprived, panic-stricken, bitter-bus-riding alyssa.

off campus

worked all day again, but this time managed to read "cultural approach to organizations" during down time, which made me feel as if my time wasn't completely wasted. went home and had a homework party with connie. drank some wine for motivation, which i'm not necessarily sure was the best combination...guess we'll find out after my paper's graded.

i miss my friends

slept in LATE (the fault of mom's sleep-number bed and the black out curtains that make light impenetrable), went to work for the (yet again) hated afternoon shift, tried to invite people for a last-minute get-together that ultimately fell through. those who did show up, though, were those i most wanted to see and time was spent laughing, talking, and loving.

days are mundane

Drove my parents to the airport, and then to the grocery store to buy food for the weekend, back to the house to spend two hours lounging before off to the stupid mall until 9:30pm. It's discouraging to know that I spent my entire day within a ten foot radius.