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Also, I was hungry, and salad was the only vaguely healthy thing that I could figure out haw to make in less than five minutes (as opposed to, say, a can of soup or something). It was tasty, mostly because it had cilantro, pepperoni, portabello mushroom slices, and a considerable amount of Manchego cheese on top of it.
Right. New leaves and stuff.
Leaf #1: Actually get up when my alarm goes off at 6am and be on campus and math-capable by in time for my 8am Statistics class. (Every single person I've talked to who took, passed, and paid attention to a stats class has said they still used those skills. Plus, it looks good on a grad school application. So I guess I'm taking stats.) This has mostly resulted in sleep-deprived discombobulation, but this morning (after forgetting to set my alarm) I managed to get up at seven and put real clothes on instead of lounging around in jammies until lunchtime, so there's a chance I may achieve this goal by the time school starts. Which is a week from today. (And what kind of a nutjob starts a semester on the Thursday before Labor Day? Could someone explain this logic?)
Leaf #2: Start posting regularly! For various reasons, the biggest of which is that, despite how posting to LJ/DW is the first thing to go out the window when I'm busy or stressed or suddenly not busy or stressed, when I think back I've always been more focused when I'm posting regularly. Also, I think I'm going to use blogging as part of my get-up-early ritual - just get up, drink my coffee, and hammer out a quick post about what I've been doing by 7am - which should reign in both my tendency towards massive brain-dump posts and my Facebook-related shiny object syndrome (which often threatens to make me late for class and really doesn't help me wake up). Plus, I always feel like an introverted freak when I just lurk on the fringes and never interact then suddenly pop up hoping to talk to people. Nevermind that I really AM an introverted freak (no, seriously - I could go weeks without speaking to another human in person, and be completely fine with that. A little discombobulated when I finally try to reincorporate myself into humanity again, but fine), I still end up feeling kind of guilty, both for disappearing with no notice and for coming back and assuming you'd give a damn.
Leaf #3: Actually do those things I've working on or wanting to do but putting off because of homework. This includes lots of things, small things like cleaning or making a proper dinner instead of just throwing something together, people things like attending meetings for the theatre groups on campus or going to airsoft games, project things like finishing my steampunk gear or finally fixing that chair I broke two years ago, skill things like remembering to practice my tai chi and harmonica and juggling and piano. This is mostly for the same reason that I want to start posting again, because even though the reason I'm not doing these things is, ostensibly, to devote more time to homework, it doesn't actually work that way. I end up all twitchy, unable to escape the "I would rather be..." thought buzzing around my head, and getting about a quarter as much done as I should have with the time I had, and damned cranky about skipping out on whatever-it-was, to boot. So I figure, if I let myself do a few projects, I will probably get a little less homework done, but I'll be less stressed and cranky and by extension maybe be better equipped (read: less mentally exhausted) to learn what I'm supposed to be learning. And if I'm really, really lucky, I'll eventually pare down the list of projects enough that I can bear making "be The Best Student Ever" one of my projects again, like it was back in freshman year, when I kicked the ass and took the name of EVERYTHING. No, seriously - if I remember correctly, for every elective course I took freshman year, I was asked "Have you ever considered majoring in [English/Sociology/Math]?" (My answers, by the way, were: "Yes, but I don't want to tackle a double major," "No, but I'm minoring in Anthropology," and a befuddled facial expression.)
I think that's enough leaves for now. There may be more, but I think they're mostly additions and specifications to these three.... Plus, I'm trying to stop doing the massive brain dump posts.
Right. New leaves and stuff.
Leaf #1: Actually get up when my alarm goes off at 6am and be on campus and math-capable by in time for my 8am Statistics class. (Every single person I've talked to who took, passed, and paid attention to a stats class has said they still used those skills. Plus, it looks good on a grad school application. So I guess I'm taking stats.) This has mostly resulted in sleep-deprived discombobulation, but this morning (after forgetting to set my alarm) I managed to get up at seven and put real clothes on instead of lounging around in jammies until lunchtime, so there's a chance I may achieve this goal by the time school starts. Which is a week from today. (And what kind of a nutjob starts a semester on the Thursday before Labor Day? Could someone explain this logic?)
Leaf #2: Start posting regularly! For various reasons, the biggest of which is that, despite how posting to LJ/DW is the first thing to go out the window when I'm busy or stressed or suddenly not busy or stressed, when I think back I've always been more focused when I'm posting regularly. Also, I think I'm going to use blogging as part of my get-up-early ritual - just get up, drink my coffee, and hammer out a quick post about what I've been doing by 7am - which should reign in both my tendency towards massive brain-dump posts and my Facebook-related shiny object syndrome (which often threatens to make me late for class and really doesn't help me wake up). Plus, I always feel like an introverted freak when I just lurk on the fringes and never interact then suddenly pop up hoping to talk to people. Nevermind that I really AM an introverted freak (no, seriously - I could go weeks without speaking to another human in person, and be completely fine with that. A little discombobulated when I finally try to reincorporate myself into humanity again, but fine), I still end up feeling kind of guilty, both for disappearing with no notice and for coming back and assuming you'd give a damn.
Leaf #3: Actually do those things I've working on or wanting to do but putting off because of homework. This includes lots of things, small things like cleaning or making a proper dinner instead of just throwing something together, people things like attending meetings for the theatre groups on campus or going to airsoft games, project things like finishing my steampunk gear or finally fixing that chair I broke two years ago, skill things like remembering to practice my tai chi and harmonica and juggling and piano. This is mostly for the same reason that I want to start posting again, because even though the reason I'm not doing these things is, ostensibly, to devote more time to homework, it doesn't actually work that way. I end up all twitchy, unable to escape the "I would rather be..." thought buzzing around my head, and getting about a quarter as much done as I should have with the time I had, and damned cranky about skipping out on whatever-it-was, to boot. So I figure, if I let myself do a few projects, I will probably get a little less homework done, but I'll be less stressed and cranky and by extension maybe be better equipped (read: less mentally exhausted) to learn what I'm supposed to be learning. And if I'm really, really lucky, I'll eventually pare down the list of projects enough that I can bear making "be The Best Student Ever" one of my projects again, like it was back in freshman year, when I kicked the ass and took the name of EVERYTHING. No, seriously - if I remember correctly, for every elective course I took freshman year, I was asked "Have you ever considered majoring in [English/Sociology/Math]?" (My answers, by the way, were: "Yes, but I don't want to tackle a double major," "No, but I'm minoring in Anthropology," and a befuddled facial expression.)
I think that's enough leaves for now. There may be more, but I think they're mostly additions and specifications to these three.... Plus, I'm trying to stop doing the massive brain dump posts.
