This semester is proving to be a real trial. Frankly, I'm enjoying the classes a lot more, and it's so much less work than last semester, when I had to go down to my extremely fun and happening beat in Jamaica, Queens - or the ends of the earth as I prefer to call it - constantly. Add to that classes during the day, and work, all of which took up huge chunks of time, allowing me very little time to actually go down to Jamaica. So, I was constantly running around like crazy, staying up till 2 or 3, and then waking up at about 7 again the next morning, trying to catch up, and always feeling like I was behind. My source of stress last semester was that I had more work than I could keep up with.
This semester is a completely different story. I have three classes, all of which are in the evenings, and one of which requires minimal work outside of class. The other two do have a significant amount of work, but most of it is done on the phone or by email. Which means that, aside from the about 15 hours I spend at my job, I'm sitting at home in front of the computer. I don't dare move more than a six foot radius away from my computer, for fear that I might get abducted by aliens and never return and thus not meet my deadlines. I am afraid to step outside even to do some reading for class, for fear that I'll lose my precious "reporting time". The problem is that there are a lot of down times when I'm waiting for someone to call me back, or when I literally don't have much to do. But, neurotic as i am, I'm afraid that if I use this time to do other things, then I'm wasting my "reporting time" on things that can be done outside of the 9-5 slot when my sources will be at work, and thus accessible. My stress this semester, therefore, comes from the fact that I feel like I am not busy enough - surely I should be tearing my hair out, since that was what I was doing at this time last semester (remember, Emio?!?!)
This is not fun. I am an introvert and I like my "me" time, but there is also only so much of "me" that I can take - and frankly "me" is starting to get on me nerves. And all this is resulting in posts like the one about Google chat, which I felt so stupid about that I felt compelled to take down.
Save me from myself!!
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OMG I can't believe you took down the gmail chat post (my brilliant comments are lost forever!).
Sounds like you should give them your cell phone number and get out of the house more often! That sucks, though -- It's annoying when you spend a lot of time just waiting for people to get back to you. I hate the time at work spent preparing for an assigmet (ordering books from the library, waiting for them to get delivered, printing endless pages of judgments or law review articles, putting all the stuff in folders, printing labels, creating the word documents, blah blah). Just let me write the damn thing!
CAVEBOY.
What's the matter with you?!! Enjoy your time off - come to Keats more often :)
If you're sick of 'you' time, remember that none of us are!!!!
~FMP
Awww, thanks! And I am coming this week, aren't i?!?!? I REFUSE to sing though, and am working up a sore throat just for the occasion:-P
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