Time seems to be going both very quickly, and very slowly simultaneously. Has that ever happened to you!? It’s only been two weeks since classes started, but each day passes so quickly that I feel like it must have been at least a month! I had thought that after the holiday on the 18th for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and the short school week following, that I would be done with running last-minute errands for class materials, but of course that was a mistake.

I had planned for my Reading and Writing Texts (aka HUMA 3300) class, which is a core requirement, that I would check out my required reading books (of which there are 9, plus the latest edition of the MLA Handbook) from the library. But, when the teacher found that out he suggested I just go buy them. He wasn’t rude about it or anything, but I did get the impression that he didn’t really understand the idea that textbooks for the semester can cost me as much as a month’s rent, which I could use for…I don’t know…rent. But, I needed to go out and buy the books.

Granted, this one class won’t break the bank, but it’s frustrating. (If I really wanted to rant, my Statistics book was $102.00.) No offense to my relatives, because I love you all, but I need some relative that I don’t really know to die and leave me a lot of money to help me finish paying for college. Or, you know, some random person to feel bad for me and just give me the money.  I would work if I could, but right now my schedule is too crazed to allow for it…class at 10:30am, class at 5:30…class at 10, 1:30, 4 to 7pm…alternating days. And in my so-called “free” time I’m trying to stay up and a little ahead for Statistics because, folks, this is the third time I’ve taken a Statistics class…the first one I dropped because an absence during an exam was going to make me fail (which is what I get for not having the insurance to run to the doctor every time I’m sick with something I’m already familiar with), the second one I dropped because I had a D and no time to study since I was working that semester…but this time, miraculously…I seem to be doing well in Statistics. I blame the teacher and the fact that the textbook, expensive though it is, is rather well-written. Plus, I’m studying like a madwoman. Oh, and then other homework, of course. Not that reading is ever very hard to do, but it does take time.

But…finally…I seem to have (almost) everything I need for all my classes, I’ve turned in my graduation application, and my application for a passport (yay for impending international travel, wherever it may be), and I’m doing pretty well so far, if feeling a little overwhelmed. I also have been trying to go to the gym regularly (OKAY, FINE, I failed this week…but I’m going to go tomorrow) and I have been trying to deliberately plan a little “me-time” every day so that I don’t go stark, raving mad trying to make it to graduation which is, to claim a cliché, so close and yet so far away.

Anyhoodles, that’s my update for now…I’m just busy (and probably a bit self-absorbed while trying to get everything done) but I’m doing okay!