I Have Done All The Things
OhmyFSM, I am so tired.
This last few weeks has been absolutely killer, but I have, apparently, lived to tell the tale! Believe it or not, I managed to complete all the things on my “to do” leading up to this weekend. It got pretty crazy by the end – pretty much every day last week I came home from work, sat down at my computer and starting doing homework and did homework until it was time for bed, breaking only to eat the dinner that Devon, FSM bless him, had made. But the fact is, it’s now Sunday night and I’m on the other side of two exams ((Three if you count the take home exam that was do about a week ago.)), three papers, and one presentation.
Class ended early today – 12 pm instead of 5 pm – giving our class a chance to have a “we survived the first half of the core!” party. It was pretty awesome to have a chance to chat with classmates in a purely social circumstance. We spend so much time together in classes and working on group projects, but to chat with people we haven’t worked directly with and find out about people’s interests outside the program ((If Professor Steve is reading this, rest assured that everyone’s interests outside the program are purely theoretical – we have done nothing by homework since the start of pre-core, I promise.)) was really nice. The wine and beers and appies were muchly appreciated too!
I came home after the party and had the mother of all naps ((Partly from exhaustion due to overwork, partly due to being two-glasses-of-wine drunk)). And then I did something I haven’t done in ages. I went to the grocery store. I watched some TV shows. And I folded laundry! Seriously, I had three laundry buckets full of *clean* clothes that I just haven’t had time to fold ((In all honestly, I folded the laundry while watching the TV show because (a) I’m so used to having to be efficient and don’t seem capable of only doing one thing at a time, and (b) I hate household chores with the fire of a thousand suns, so I must distract myself so that I don’t notice I’m doing them. Similarly, I emptied the dishwasher while talking to my sister on the phone.)).
And now I’m ready for bed! I will sleep the sleep of the just and a week full of work where I don’t also have imminent school deadlines hanging over my head. I mean, there are deadlines, because there is no rest for the wicked and our summer “break” consists of many projects and readings and such-like, but I feel like I can at least breath a bit now.
And now – a list!
Things I’m Going To Do Now That the Month From Hell Is Over:
cook awesome dinners every night this week
go for a run tomorrow night ((I did manage to squeeze in a few runs in the past couple of weeks, because they truly do keep me sane, but not as many as I would have liked))
bake something yummy and bring it into the office, just because
re-connect with friends that I have barely seen since before pre-core to see if they are, in fact, still my friends
set up my “to do” list of tasks I need to complete over the summer ((Did I mention there is no rest for the wicked??))
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Ha! I cleaned the kitchen and updated my OS while chatting with you.
We are SO related.
I love me some TV, yet I cannot watch it without doing SOMETHING else. Folding laundry is my task of choice, too.
Congrats on finishing the first half of the core! We are so very proud of you.
Since I discovered podcasts a couple of years ago, boring tasks like folding laundry and cleaning are much less boring. And I can’t believe I used to be able to survive transit* without them.
Let’s get together some time after my parents leave and I’m more settled into my new job and have completed my first work trip and my parents have left (the latter is so important to regaining my sanity that I had to mention it twice).
*sometimes just barely, but still.
When do the parental units leave? And when are you back from your work trip? And when do the parental units leave?
July 7th, July 4th, July 7th