So Much To Do, So Little Time

i'm cracking under the pressure!
i've got so much to do that i honestly don't think i will be able to sleep this week. i'm freaking out.
next week i have to:
-come up with a snappy communication project highlighting Enviornmental Justice (i have an idea of what i want to do, but no idea on how i am going to do it!)
-Write an 8 page french essay on three books i haven't read!
-Read the 3 books that i haven't read for the essay
-Read another book for monday for my other french class
-Learn how to use the DIF lab tomake a poster
-Wirte my EIA report for 391
-Read a 5th french novel for the following thursday
-Revamp my questionnaire for EAS 392, for another assignment

honestly, i tell you, i have less than a month until i graduate and well i don't think i'll live to see that happen!
anyways, i'm just venting here because i can. thats why. there is another reason and the answer lies in my previous post. yah thats a hint, give me a god-damned call once in a while!

Things I want to do

1. Not do this mountain of project work that needs to be done for tomorrow
2. Learn how to budget my time more effectively
3. Spend an entire day lounging on the couch in front of the television watching the LOTR trilogy (extended versions)
4. Spend more quality time with my friends
a) Reconnect with my friend Jill. i miss her. We have not had a night on the time since she and Jarret moved out, i miss out venting sessions together, i fear that we are growing apart and that the friendship is suffering because of that.
b) Get some more bonding time with my roommates, to get to know them better. I still kind of feel like the stranger in the house, i can't seem to break out of my comfort zone, and find the time to get to know them all better. they're amazing people and i can learn a lot from them. i just need to make the time.
c) Spend more time with the HuGSS crew, the semester is almost over, and the social aspect is definitly over as everything is due in 2-3 weeks! Hailey and I will be going our separate ways and i feel that i need to reinfoce these relationships so that they can withstand the test of time that they are about to face.
d) visit with Shomei and Niyati before they both leave and return to their respective countires (though i don't know if Niyati is leaving, but she'll definitly go home for a visit. Shomei is definitly leaving and i wish i could make more time for them both.
5. Go to teach in Japan next year (ie-this july) but i have this nagging feeling that the interview went badly and i'm not going to get it.
5. Come up with a back up plan, if i don't get to go on JET.
6. Becomemore flexable, man Tae Kwon Do is killing me because i have the most inflexable hips in the world. stupid upper roundhouse kick, you are the bane of my existance.
7. Conquer the upper roundhouse kick
8. Learn how to speak my mind better and step out of my comfort zone more and actually live my life, not just watch it from the sidelines.
9. Read novels just for fun, not for school
10. Print off my Europe photos and make a cool scrapbook/photo album and frame pictures of all my friends and those who are important to me (this includes pics from home as well)
11. Stop procrastinating and get my stupid french homework done!

HuGSS

HuGSS
Originally uploaded by Rob Rutherford.

I'm having one of those days, you know the ones where you think you are going to be so productive and that you've given yourself tons of time to get all of your work done. But then come 8pm you realize that "shit, i've basically squandered the day away and have gotten nothing done at all!"
yah, thats me today. plus it doesn't help with the fact that i'm totally not in a freach-reading mood. i don't want to do this presentation.

This photo is from Kamloops, the Annual CAG western division conference. It is the HuGSS group at the banquet, i really enjoyed it, the banquet, and this is one of my favorite photos from the trip.

anyways, i should get back to my homework.
still feeling very restless!

Animaniacs

All of last week i've been downloading a select group of episodes of the cartoon series Animaniacs. I've had a regression back into childhood and have had a "craving" (i guess is the best way to put it) to watch this show of my youth. they've got some great parodies of famous movies and tv shows, as well as some famous characters got their start on this show, such as pinky and the brain.
Now it's finally downloaded and it's really funny. i'm really enjoying it. and it's only about 25 min long, each episode is, so they can be made into short study breaks, when i just need to relax and do something completly brainless.
It's time for Animaaaaniacs!!

Rob's Post in Real Time

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Okay i've allowed myself a 5 min break to do whatever the hell i feel like before i get back to my crappy french essay. I was checking blogs and since no one has updated theirs since i last read them (though i last read them all yesterday, so its me who's at fault) i figured i'd update mine with a little bitch session about how much
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home work i have to do in the next three days! i have a french essay (8 pages) due tomorrow, i've only got one paragraph written by the way. then i have to work on a very time consumming 392 questionnaire that is due friday
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and that'll take at the very least an entire day to do. then i have my 494 midterm to worry about over the weekend. i'm calling my work tomorrow to let them know that i am not available at all for the next two weeks. i swore that i'd be caught up in all my coursework by
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the end of reading week and i didn't get that done so now i'm paying for it. man doing this against the clock is stressful! i've also given up junk food and all processed food for lent. so i hav eno comfort food to feed my ever-growing tummy. sigh let the
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stress begin! yikes time sure goes by fast. okay only 30 seconds to go! argh what to say what to say? i really shouldn't keep going back and correcting all my spelling erros. oh well. okay times uop!

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