This is going to be a quick rant because I need to get some sleep…
Grrr! Where did the weekend go?
I wrote about 1,200 words today, but haven’t hardly made ANY progress in my writing the past few days! I’ve got a paper due this Friday but I haven’t hardly done any research for it, I haven’t done the reading for my poli sci 375 class, I’m hopelessly behind in my daily Arabic homework (though I do think I’m getting better), and I’m WAY behind in my scripture study–both personal and for the New Testament class!
Man! I feel so…unproductive!
On the plus side, I did complete all three of the weekly PLSC 310 readings that are due on Monday, and completed them by Saturday night (each one usually takes me at least an hour–they are thick, difficult, tortuous academic articles), I hosted an awesome activity for the Quark writing group, I saw Terminator 2 with an old friend of mine (awesome movie, by the way!), did 75% of my hometeaching, was home taught, made some upgrades to my photoblog, read about a quarter of Twilight, almost went on a date (girls are lame!), and caught up with a whole lot of old friends that I haven’t seen in a long time.
And, really, I shouldn’t land all that hard on myself for falling short. After all, we all fall short in some areas, and need to rely on Jesus Christ to lift us past that. If the ideal person we’re trying to be is so perfect that he/she doesn’t need the atonement, what are we really doing to ourselves?
But man…I could have been more productive. I am getting by, though. I know how to do that, at least.
And I’ve got a ton of great ideas for this book! I know exactly what I want to do in this next chapter–I’ve got it outlined in my head, and all I have to do is sit down and write it. I’d do it all tomorrow, if I didn’t have so much homework, but I’m going to spread it out a little more and try to catch up with some of my other obligations, especially that research.
I’m just nervous that I’ll find myself in a tight crunch in a month. I can just barely see the ending from where I am now, and I want to get there, but it’s going to take a while. Hopefully, a month is enough time to cover all of that.
:crosses fingers:
And now I’m going to go to bed. Have a good night!
