Mosaic Life

In which I work a Gone with the Wind quote into school talk

So when I tell people that I’m going to school and working full-time, they often ask me how I manage it. And each time I generally don’t know how to explain it. I’m not really sure how I haven’t gone crazy yet. I just sort of take things day by day, pray that I don’t have to work late the night before a paper is due, wake up at 6:45 am on a Saturday to go to class (often cursing because sleeping is one of my favorite things to do, but being sure to curse quietly enough not to wake Brandon), and just basically keep going.

There have been times that I’ve been so busy that I’ve had to allocate time to worry about stuff. Like one time I had to work overtime over the weekend, but I had a paper to write that was due Monday and one due Wednesday. So I had to pull a Scarlet O’Hara and say “I won’t think about that now, I’ll think about that later.” Obviously I wasn’t saying that because I was feeling guilty about shooting a yankee, but it was helpful. Sometimes I have to give myself a cut-off point, like when I have a huge reading assigment that I just don’t have time to finish without sacrificing the quality of a paper that’s due. I’ll read the first few chapters, the last few chapters, and fill the rest in with Wikipedia. I hate having to do that because I actually enjoy reading the material (most of it, so far The Song of Roland is exceedingly boring), but it’s what I have to do. Plus, honestly, I need time to be lazy, to watch one more episode of House, to actually do the dishes and maybe even do laundry. It’s all about survival until the end of April.