Hey, that's me!

7 Basic Things You Won't Believe You're All Doing Wrong

I got to the section on sleeping and grinned like a loon, because three to five hours of sleeping/an hour of peaceful wakefulness/three to five more hours of sleep EXACTLY describes nearly every night of sleep I have. I inevitably wake up at about three or four in the morning and lie around a bit before falling back to sleep. I used to keep my laptop on or near my bed so that I'd have something to do during that lazy sleepy time, but now I just keep my cell phone handy anyway for the alarm clock and when I wake up I either read one of my Kindle books or play Bubble Blast Halloween or Stupid Zombies.

Those are usually the nights when I wake up feeling the best. Sleeping for seven or eight hours straight usually just makes me want to sleep even longer.

It's good to know I'm at least doing one thing right. :)

A quick school update

I just figured I'd give a quick head-up for anybody wondering what the current status of my schoolwork is:

... uh.

*quietly freaks*

1. I have to make the same speech last ten minutes in one class and less than seven in another next weekend. (I need to do an informative speech in my speech class and a ten-minute Powerpoint presentation in my IT class, so I might as well just do the same one for both. I'm tentatively doing it on the seriousness of depression and how it's not just "being sad.")

2. If I play my cards right, the only thing I'll be doing on finals weekend is coming in to give a short speech on the service learning project (i.e., five hours of volunteer work) I'm supposed to do between now and then. (Don't ask me when I'm supposed to squeeze it in. Your guess is as good as mine.) If I get 119.5 points out of the 140 points from my take-home test this past weekend and the homework I'll have next weekend, I'll be able to skip the algebra final (well, if I'm doing the math right anyway), and my IT final is open-book and online.

3. The semester's almost done?! But it just started! :(

I was going to take classes during the summer sessions, but I decided against it because I don't want to overwhelm myself, and because I won't have the money for it anyway, and because I don't want to be trying to worm my writing time around my school time for much longer, especially if the Mystery Option Behind Door Number Three doesn't work out and I end up doing the self-publishing thing.

So I have a break until the fall, at which point it appears -- after registration opened up today and I looked through everything that was available -- that I'll be taking College Math 111 (meh, more math), College Writing 102: Writing About Literature (woohoo!), and Great Themes In Literature: Isolation and Alienation (which appears to be the only thing available during that schedule that can go towards my major).

I'll be completely unsurprised if I have to drop that last one before fall semester, because it doesn't list ENGL 102 as a prerequisite and you'd think it would. That said, if it doesn't, I'd be stupid not to take it -- I have to take a bunch of lit electives anyway, that one is a theme I really like, and it's right after ENGL 102 with the same professor in the classroom right across the hall. Heh.