Still not waking up as early as I should be, but I woke up by noon today, so that's something.
For some reason the Melcats system won't let me renew 2 of my 3 books, which is majorly annoying, because now I'll need to pay fines before borrowing again. I hadn't planned on going up to campus before classes start, but I'll probably need to if I don't want to owe like 80$ in late fines.
Still no student loan money, though at least it has been disbursed to the school at this point, so it is just a matter of getting it funneled into my bank account. Hopefully that won't take too long...according to the school's website. it should be here by Monday at the latest. That is cutting it a bit close, I'd say, especially since I have a billion pages of reading I need to do before the semester starts. I'm just lucky to have an Amazon credit card, or I wouldn't be able to afford the books that I already have assigned readings in.
Got an email for my AAS professor, and a long list of readings to have done before our first class. So the work is starting to pile on already, yay. This semester I feel like I should keep track of how much reading I'm doing and how long it takes each week, just to have a better idea of what sort of work I'm putting in and how much time to set aside for school. I figure tracking my progress is the best way to make sure I'm scheduling enough time to get everything done. I also need to start thinking about my thesis, which is about the last thing I feel like tackling at the moment. But since I'll have 20 out of 33 credits required for my Master's at the end of this semester, I really need to be working towards that. Since I've changed my emphasis and switched focus to film, I really have no idea what I'm going to be writing on. I'm thinking something involving comic books and science fiction, but I don't have anything definite at the moment. I won't be graduating until probably May of 2016, so I have time to iron it out, I suppose. It is stressful to think about, so I tend not to think too much about it, which is probably a terrible response. I'm planning on talking to Professor Kee about the thesis writing process and getting some advice and when and how to get the ball rolling.
I've been working my way through my to-do list, slowly. I can't do grocery shopping, food prep, or diet stuff until I have my student loan money, so that is on hold for the time being. I also need to sit down with Matt and write out a budget for the two of us, which also requires knowing how much money we are starting out with. I vacuumed the whole apartment yesterday, cleaned off the dining room table, cleaned up the living room a bit, did laundry, and organized the coat closet. Kitchen and bathrooms still need cleaned, which I don't feel very motivated to do, but really does need done. Matt is sick with some sort of cold, so probably won't be of much help - I don't expect him to scrub tiles or do dishes when he obviously feels terrible. Of course it is still freezing cold out, so getting the balcony and storage unit cleaned up is probably not going to happen...that is the one big thing I need to tackle that I really, really don't feel like dealing with. It is like 10 degrees out today, and I know it will probably be at least an hour of cleaning and organizing to get the storage closet put together. No thank you.
I'd really like to get my to-do list completed so I can get cracking on the 8000ish pages of reading due for my classes...I'm just not ready to switch over into school mode yet. We've had a really long break, but it still doesn't feel long enough. At the moment I still want to finish all the boring to-do list stuff, and finish reading Kavalier and Clay, and read Ticker, and watch the last season of Breaking Bad, and watch the rest of Season 1 of True Detective. All the fun stuff I should have been doing during break has been pushed back and now I don't really have time to indulge myself with Netflix marathons and non-academic reading, Sad face. Maybe I should give myself one or two "off" days each week this semester, where I don't feel obligated to do schoolwork and just chill out. I will try that if I have spare time...this whole 10 credits thing makes it really hard to get everything done. I think if I get up earlier, make a work schedule for myself, and track my progress/hours logged, I may be able to swing one or two off days. I need to be more disciplined about my school work, as the near breakdown at the end of last semester indicates. A daily routine (that doesn't involve waking up at noon and dicking around for 3 hours before starting my work) would probably help a great deal in that regard. Adding that to the to-do list. "Make/follow a daily schedule for schoolwork".
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