Excuses, Excuses, Excuses

Leah C.

November 25, 2009 - 11:00 PM

Apologies for the lateness of my blog, as the end of fall term draws nearer, I find myself overwhelmed with so many things on my agenda. Scrambling to get everything together, I sometimes feel hopeless, and lost. Usually I am able to pull myself together, and meet everything at the deadline, but last weekend was terrible! So bad that I had to request extensions for two deadlines. One of them for my blog entries, and the other my digital arts project. I had never felt so overwhelmed with work before, and I am somewhat disappointed in myself for asking for these extensions, but I simply was unable to pull everything together. I had been sleeping around 4-5am in the morning for the past 2 weeks, and didn't get a wink of sleep on Tuesday because I was studying for my geology midterm. Besides the midterm on Tuesday, I also had a biology project paper, and a movie poster I was designing for my digital arts course due on the same day!!!!
On top of that I had a cultural event scheduled on Saturday the 21st with the Hong Kong Student Association. We had been planning and working with the Chinese Student's Scholar's Association to host a joint cultural event: Karaoke Night (I will write more about this in my next blog.)

So this is what my workload looked like:

November??- November 20th:

* Bio experiment/paper, art project (vector work takes 14+hours), geology Readings.

* Planning karaoke night/meetings with the Chinese Student Association.

* 8-10PMWushu practice MWF (Missed Wednesdays practice for HKSA meeting, Friday's canceled.)

November 21st (SAT):

* Worked on vector image for art project ( Photoshopped crashed, lost 3 hours of work...)

* Went to help setup HKSA/CSSA karaoke event at 6:30PM-event ended at 11PM.

* 11PM Cleaned up, and had "dinner."

* Worked some more on biology paper, I was doing a behavioral experiment on geese.

November 22nd (SUN):

* Continue to work on art on art project

* Continue to work on biology paper (Collected more data on geese behavior/aggression at Millrace and Alton Baker Park.)

* Started going through notes and study guides for geology midterm.

*Panicked about my deadlines.

November 23rd (MON):

* Continue work on art project

* Finished biology paper ( 5 page report with table).

* Studied all day and night for geology midterm.

* Skipped wushu practice.

 
November 24th (TUE):

* Turned in my paper, and gave an informal presentation in biology.

* Took geology midterm. ( Was dozing off during the test!!!!!!)

* Worked as much as I can on the art project due on that day (extension was given).

* Presented the progress of my movie poster in the digital arts class for the critique.

November 25th (WED):
*Mass cleaning of room ( so dirty...)

*Packing/leaving for Portland

*Writing this blog.

I am home now and I just can't believe I made it through this week, but I still have many things to finish, such as my blog entries and the art project. I also have another 2 projects coming up, and 2 finals to look forward too. It is great to be back home for Thanksgiving, but I will not be able to relax until the beginning of winter break. Its gonna be another long week, and all I really want is sleep.