Fourth Week or So of School

I am hating school right now. The only thing keeping me going is the fact that I will be graduating this semester... then I'll be DONE! No grad school for me, at least not in the immediate future anyway. Five years in school may not seem like much, but I can't do it anymore. The B.S.-ing on papers, pretending to like your classmates and teachers, getting up super early, insane deadlines, finals, all that good stuff.

Speaking of which, I'm supposed to be writing a paper as I write this post. It's about the personality of the Cid (a national Spanish hero of the reconquest) in these short poems we read in class called "romances"... or at least that's my aim. There are just so many ideas we've talked about that I want to incorporate... but I don't want to complicate my topic for adding in other ideas that may correspond slightly to another topic. I don't even know why I have to write the whole paper (4-5 pages) today. I mean, the actualy paper isn't due until September 22nd so I have some time. What we're doing today is going over our  outline. To me, outline is this since I've spent so many sleepless nights doing these before writing a draft in High School:

 

I. Intro

    A. yadda yadda

        i. I will talk about how awesome  yadda yadda is

        ii.I will use this quote about yadda yadda to prove myself

or something similar that just serves as a guidline to a draft.-- i.e. organized notes.

 

So, that's probably what I'll do since we're not turning them in and just working in groups. If she's angry... who cares. But she did say outline so she CAN'T and SHOULDN'T get angry. Besides, it's not like I'll have nothing written. Also, I'm going with the outline instead of the draft because of time constraints. There's no surprise there.

I had class all day on Monday and couldn't really clean out my room. On Tuesday, I got home early and started washing clothes so that they'd be clean when I put them in my closet. Then that way I could move things around in my room... or at least that was the idea. Since I went to bed late on Monday and used my brain for quite some time during classes that day, I was very tired on Tuesday. I did wash clothes, but I didn't really start on moving anything in the room because, after a good amount of clothing was washed, I fell asleep watching the trial of Michael Riley. He had been over medicating his four year old daughter and administered the final lethal dose that ultimately killed her. It was tragic, I mean, how can someone murder their own child let alone anybody else. I couldn't continue watching. So I was asleep and woke up in time to take out the trash and get ready for work. Today, I'm going to have to up the ante and do a lot of work if I'm going to get my mattress out of there and room cleaned up by Saturday.

Plus, I've been working on my art projects for my digital design class. That takes up a lot of time since we're using Photoshop, which I'm familiar with, but Illustrator as well, which I'm not so familiar with, so I've been checking out tutorials.

I'm working 23 hours a week (I've changed it to just 16 hours a week and that won't go into effect until the 25th. That should make a difference on the work front) and have other homework due like possibly other college students are doing, I just don't have time write a whole draft, four pages and all. Especially since it's not being turned in.