Today I feel really and truly crazy. Like I know I'm normally a little crazy. But I mean, today I am seriously crazy.
OK, so I am totally stressed out about school right now. Tomorrow, I have a presentation I have to give for my Shakespeare class. This group presentation/class discussion is worth a whole whopping 20% of my grade. Plus, on top of that, I have a midterm due for the same class, also worth 20% of my grade. And this isn't a simple, walk-in-the-park, multiple choice type midterm either. We're talking 4 complete essays. And not like essays that you do in the testing center where they're not really polished and you just spout relevant information in some kind of cohesive format. No, we're talking full-on, well-polished, thought-provoking essays that go above and beyond what we've already gone over in class. And my teacher is extremely harsh in her grading. And we're talking FOUR of them! And let's not even go into the fact that each essay is also going to double-count toward the assignments I've missed this semester (also worth 20% of my grade). So for this one class, I have 60% of my entire grade riding on how I get through the rest of today and tomorrow morning.
On top of which, I have to worry about writing and revising three chapters' worth of a novel for my creative writing class by next Saturday, I have to re-write my research paper for my religion class by Monday, I have a grammar assignment due this Saturday, a grammar research paper due ASAP, and another 10-page research paper for my Shakespeare class due by the last day of the semester, for which my professor is requiring that I actually do painstaking library research for instead of just finding scholarly sources online.
And that's just school. Tonight alone, in addition to my crazy 4-essay midterm, I've got to go to the creamery and buy soda and sherbet for our custodial meeting tomorrow, drop that off at work, straighten the house so my in-laws can come over, take a shower, and get to the movie theater to stand in line early for Harry Potter so we can actually get decent seats. Then on Saturday I've got a good friend's wedding reception to go to, and then we have Thanksgiving. Looks like I'll be working all day Monday, and probably all day Tuesday. Fortunately, I get Wednesday off, but most of that will be spent trying to get stuff ready for Thanksgiving. Thursday will be packed with cooking and cleaning, and then on Black Friday Andrew and I are getting up early to check out deals at Best Buy and hopefully buy a computer. That afternoon, I have to work at my new job, for which I still feel pretty unprepared, which doesn't help when it comes to working Black Friday.
...Whew. I needed to vent all of that. Anyway, I finally got so stressed that I got up super early this morning and a pill from my ADD prescription. Unfortunately, when I went back to bed, that meant that my brain tried to analyze every random dream to come up intelligent insights into my Shakespeare midterm essay questions. Then, when I woke up, I was bombarded with nausea and the shakes, both side effects of the ADD pill. Fortunately, it also makes me not hungry, so I've saved money today by not buying food on campus. And on the plus side, I've already breezed through my grammar assignment and I wrote this blog entry pretty quickly.
Still...If you don't hear from me in the next few weeks, I've probably gone insane and eaten myself. Just didn't want you guys to worry...
