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tarigwaemirLowell House, on the Dedication of St. John Lateran Basilica in Rome
You know, I hate not having afternoons and evenings free anymore. I end up having such narrow margins of time to get everything done. Wednesdays are especially annoying because after four and a half hours of classes plus kendo, I invariably end up in stupid positions like locking myself out of my room near midnight while taking out the bathroom trash that's been accumulating for weeks. And yes, I have a roommate, but she was asleep, and I had to run through the rain to the super's office to get back into our suite. Luckily the super's office isn't too far from our entryway. Also, because I've been busy running about taking care of all these mundane little tasks, I haven't had the chance to shower yet, so I feel icky and gross. To top things off, one of my contacts is slipping in and out of focus, my legs are cramped, I feel dehydrated, and all I really want to do is go to sleep even though I really ought to write my Korean essay and work on the paper due next Friday.
Also before tomorrow ends, I need to find time to finish putting together my shinai, go to the post office, stop by the bank, pick up my ticket for next Friday, figure out directions to Cornell...but the problem is I spend all day in lab and then have class from 4 to 6, which means either managing to get up early enough to get the stuff done before I go to lab or running about crazily during my hour-long lunch break. It's really stupid of me to complain because I don't have a hard schedule this year. But there's no space to get anything done because I've scheduled every bit of free time for lab. The only blocks of free time I have are on Wednesday and Friday mornings, and no matter how early I get up, it's never enough time to fit everything in. I'm not talking about homework, just random errands that can't be done late at night or on weekends. It would help if I could take an afternoon off occasionally, but I already feel as if I'm not spending enough time in lab as it is. 22 hours a week, and it's still not enough. I get stuck with computer work and data analysis these days because it's more convenient than having me start experiments that I can't finish. I really hate working at the computer. Not only can I not focus on it but I also get horribly distracted. Which reminds me that I'm behind on rescoring gels and compiling a final list of markers, nd I feel as if I ought to finish up work on my own time in my dorm, since I can connect to the computer at lab via Remote Desktop, but when I'm supposed to find the time to do that is beyond me.
That's another thing, I can't make myself get up before 8 these days. Well, today I managed 7 but only because I went to sleep at 10. I've been perpetually late to lab for the past two weeks. I've been trying to go to sleep earlier but the only days when I get back to Lowell before 6 are the days when I have kendo in the evenings, which means limited homework time. I wish I could function on less sleep. Actually I probably can function on less sleep but lack sufficient incentive to force myself to do so.
All these problems would be solved I'm sure if I spent less time checking my LJ and more time being productive, but that doesn't make me feel any less frustrated at the moment.
All right, resolution: next semester, I won't schedule classes in four-hour blocks anymore.
Screw it, I'm tired. I'm going to bed and showering in the morning. Cast aspersions on my habits of personal hygiene if you want; at this moment, I don't care. I've had enough condescension thrown at me today, intentionally or not, and right now I can't be bothered to be bristly about it.
Yours &c.
Post-script: You know, all things considered, I think it'll be best if I take a hiatus from LJ until Thanksgiving break. If you see me on here, tell me to stop posting and get my life back onto a regular cycle so I'll stop driving myself mad over the least sign of disorganization. Ugh, that reminds me how my desk is a mess. And the floor of my room is unspeakably filthy. ;_;
You know, I hate not having afternoons and evenings free anymore. I end up having such narrow margins of time to get everything done. Wednesdays are especially annoying because after four and a half hours of classes plus kendo, I invariably end up in stupid positions like locking myself out of my room near midnight while taking out the bathroom trash that's been accumulating for weeks. And yes, I have a roommate, but she was asleep, and I had to run through the rain to the super's office to get back into our suite. Luckily the super's office isn't too far from our entryway. Also, because I've been busy running about taking care of all these mundane little tasks, I haven't had the chance to shower yet, so I feel icky and gross. To top things off, one of my contacts is slipping in and out of focus, my legs are cramped, I feel dehydrated, and all I really want to do is go to sleep even though I really ought to write my Korean essay and work on the paper due next Friday.
Also before tomorrow ends, I need to find time to finish putting together my shinai, go to the post office, stop by the bank, pick up my ticket for next Friday, figure out directions to Cornell...but the problem is I spend all day in lab and then have class from 4 to 6, which means either managing to get up early enough to get the stuff done before I go to lab or running about crazily during my hour-long lunch break. It's really stupid of me to complain because I don't have a hard schedule this year. But there's no space to get anything done because I've scheduled every bit of free time for lab. The only blocks of free time I have are on Wednesday and Friday mornings, and no matter how early I get up, it's never enough time to fit everything in. I'm not talking about homework, just random errands that can't be done late at night or on weekends. It would help if I could take an afternoon off occasionally, but I already feel as if I'm not spending enough time in lab as it is. 22 hours a week, and it's still not enough. I get stuck with computer work and data analysis these days because it's more convenient than having me start experiments that I can't finish. I really hate working at the computer. Not only can I not focus on it but I also get horribly distracted. Which reminds me that I'm behind on rescoring gels and compiling a final list of markers, nd I feel as if I ought to finish up work on my own time in my dorm, since I can connect to the computer at lab via Remote Desktop, but when I'm supposed to find the time to do that is beyond me.
That's another thing, I can't make myself get up before 8 these days. Well, today I managed 7 but only because I went to sleep at 10. I've been perpetually late to lab for the past two weeks. I've been trying to go to sleep earlier but the only days when I get back to Lowell before 6 are the days when I have kendo in the evenings, which means limited homework time. I wish I could function on less sleep. Actually I probably can function on less sleep but lack sufficient incentive to force myself to do so.
All these problems would be solved I'm sure if I spent less time checking my LJ and more time being productive, but that doesn't make me feel any less frustrated at the moment.
All right, resolution: next semester, I won't schedule classes in four-hour blocks anymore.
Screw it, I'm tired. I'm going to bed and showering in the morning. Cast aspersions on my habits of personal hygiene if you want; at this moment, I don't care. I've had enough condescension thrown at me today, intentionally or not, and right now I can't be bothered to be bristly about it.
Yours &c.
Post-script: You know, all things considered, I think it'll be best if I take a hiatus from LJ until Thanksgiving break. If you see me on here, tell me to stop posting and get my life back onto a regular cycle so I'll stop driving myself mad over the least sign of disorganization. Ugh, that reminds me how my desk is a mess. And the floor of my room is unspeakably filthy. ;_;
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Date: 2005-11-10 06:13 am (UTC)The next day when you can feasibly squish it in, spend an hour on Tari-time (away from the computer; skimming LJ doesn't count): meet a friend, have a coffee, walk around outside if the weather isn't too shitty. I know an hour's really difficult to squish in anywhere, but one break to destress will make you feel a lot better about everything else you have to do.
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Date: 2005-11-10 06:17 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-12 07:47 am (UTC)Hope the stress goes away. At least Thanksgiving break is coming up!
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Date: 2005-11-10 06:18 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-10 06:36 am (UTC)Hot shower. Sleep. Rest. We'll be patient and channeling good wishes.
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Date: 2005-11-10 06:50 am (UTC)computerroom and the lab and classrooms and the .5 miles in between them, well, that's enough to drive anyone crazy. I should know, I've been doing the same thing. (Laundry? Don't talk to me about laundry. The other day I lost my wallet and so far I've been too apathetic about it to do anything more than cancel the credit card. I suppose I will need ID eventually...)See you at Thanksgiving, good luck till then!
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Date: 2005-11-10 12:56 pm (UTC)Tari, woman of steel! Arrr! Fear her mighty shinai!
(Or something)
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Date: 2005-11-10 09:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-10 09:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-14 11:31 am (UTC)P.S. Finished camera; once I find a place to develop it for UNDER 15 euros, geez, I'll send the pics to you.