the past week now i've been a bit under the weather. that's not good for many reasons 1) i hate being sick 2) i have a lot of classwork to do and no energy to do it 3) i have a lot of work to do and still no energy to do it & 4) my job requires me to supervise late night events such as concerts and comedy shows in which i don't get home until 1 am usually...none of which are good/easy when you aren't feeling 100% nor does it help you to get better...it's also frightening because health officials talk about how swine flu will impact the campus, so that's always a pleasant thought.
the past week has been productive though, i've been able to stay almost caught up on school work, tonight after my football game i'll write a 2 page paper and create a few powerpoint slides with it and tomorrow i'll read for my classes. then my next huge project is to select a research topic and start writing because i have 3-4 pages of it due next thursday. being a grad assistant is great because you earn a masters degree without going 30-40K in debt...BUT it does put me in an interesting situation where i have to balance being a student, adviser, and employee all at once. time management is still very challenging for me, because the last thing that i want to do when i get home from work is homework or study. my mind is usually so fried by the time i get home that i can't focus on anything that requires me to use my brain. my job isn't really that hard, but it requires me to use parts of my brain that i really haven't used before or ways that i've used before. people aren't telling me to do tasks really, i'm being given an idea or resources and having to synthesize my own tasks, or projects...which is a really good skill to develop it's just that i've never really had to do that before so it's taking me a bit to adjust...being sick is not making that very easy though.
Kathryn came up this weekend and we got to hang out and do a lot of nothing which felt amazing! that was the highlight to an otherwise very tiring and short weekend. i worked thursday, friday, and sunday nights in which the earliest i arrived home was 12:45 am. also every football team i've ever rooted for has generously blessed me with the worst weekend of football i've ever experienced (which for any of you who truly know me, puts me in SUCH a great mood {sarcasm}) so needless to say, i was not a very pleasant person to be around saturday night and sunday....to make matters worse, my roommate is a cincinnati bengals fan (i didn't even know people rooted for the bengals). i'm hoping that the rest of the week will bring a bit of sunshine into an otherwise very gloomy week.
