Week three of the semester hasn't even begun yet, but I'm stressed as if finals were in two days.
With some big changes coming up (a new cell phone, new number, my own plan), me sending my resume out to companies in a few weeks, and two short stories of mine going to editors the week after next, changes at work (Systems might just be a go...), an extraordinarily loving relationship to maintain, and of course, school already crushing me from all sides, I'm stressing now like I never have before. It's a new level of stress - not the kind that I know comes and goes, but the kind where the goal is still fuzzy, the exit around endless corners.
I need to simplify, and I need to do it fast.
Coming up: work at 4am tomorrow, where I will discuss moving back to Systems ASAP, hopefully with a switch next week. Then reading all day, with a small movie to interrupt it. Monday is a short shift at work, then I'm LOCKING myself in my bedroom to read the shit out of Atonement, hoping to blow past the first half. Monday night, my only free night of the week, will be spent doing CS homework. Tuesday, my free day, will be spent finishing up Atonement, working on my CS homework, and writing insanely fast for my English 388 memo project.
Wednesday will be the high-point of my week: I'm going to a Verizon store to buy a new phone and sign up for my own contract (bloody expensive, too). It'll be fun, as will be the possibility of starting anew with my cell number.
But all in all, this week and the next (two essays, a CS project, a novel chapter to begin writing) will be ungodly busy.
Accommodating such a busy schedule is headache-inducing. In order to cope with this fast-paced semester, I'm cutting back everywhere in my life: in spending, in travel, and in leisure time. This is my final semester at BGSU. I'm going out with a bang, goddammit.
B3 out.
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