Not good, not good.
300+ pages of reading to do (that I will be tested on tomorrow)
Summaries of those chapters
2 weeks of news to catch up on
6 stories to read / edit
9 reaction papers
and a 20 minute presentation to prepare / practice
The good news is, after tomorrow half of my classes will be finished. That means I can focus on the studio classes I have been neglecting and maybe even go to the beach this weekend.
But it’s going to be a very long night… Wish me luck!
This is my only entertainment from my bitch of a Microsoft project:
I’m making a book “selling” PCs to design students (who tend to be adamant Mac users). The bitch part of the situation is that I’ve had to write my own copy. So here we are, 4:00am, plugging away. I’m still dropping copy in. It’s going to be an even longer morning than it was night.
Just keep swimming.
I’m sorry about yesterday. I didn’t have it in me to post, I really didn’t. Today is a barely.
This is all I want to do:
but alas, no rest for the weary exhausted.
It’s not going to get any better in the next four weeks, and I fear I won’t have anything good to say. If you can’t blog something nice, don’t blog anything at all?
Maybe I’ll stick to posting some of my inspiration / projects in process.
Sorry guys. It’s rough out here.
Here’s a little project I did for Web Design class.
Click on the picture to visit the site.
Tonight I’m looking for sleep in all the wrong places. Last night I attempted another work night (as in, the kind where you don’t go to bed), but my body vetoed the idea and I passed out at 2:30. At 5:30 I woke up in a panic and tried to get more work done. Another fail; back in bed at 7:00 and up with the alarm at 9:00. That’s five hours. Not too bad, but not very good either.
Today was another bummer of a day in the schoolwork department. Granted, I bought new catfood, flea bombed my house and Advantaged my kitty, went to the bank and bought oil for my exercise bike… But none of this helps with the impending Monday morning problem. Flea free, but not so lucky with homework.
I’m hoping a power nap can snap me out of this wheel-spinning situation I’ve gotten myself into.
I think I’ve been confusing good time management with a sheer willpower to work 24/7.
No eyes were closed last night. Not even for a minute. I sat at my desk right up until class at 11:00 (that’s 21 hours straight, for those of you keeping score). The good news is I made a lot of progress and teach and I are really excited. The bad news is I have to go through another entire edit before going to class on Tuesday.
I just woke up from a (life-saving) two hour nap, ready to start all over again. Unfortunately a lot of tonight’s work is copy-intensive, meaning I have to leave my brain turned ON.
Here’s what we’re up against:
and it’s not a good feeling. Yeah, I wrote some of those down after I completed them so I could cross ‘em off, what of it? A girl’s gotta feel like a dent has been made.
This weekend is going to be a major time management test. It’s not that I have to spend a lot of time working, it’s more like all the hours of every day until class next week need to be stuffed with doing the RIGHT project for the RIGHT amount of time. My biggest obstacle has always been prioritizing tasks and deciding how much time to give to each one.
The epic battle continues.
My neighbor is throwing up violently (and repeatedly). It’s every bit as vile as you can possibly imagine. I think I’ll opt for an apartment with insulation next time.
But that’s not why we’re here tonight. We’re here to talk about GETTING THINGS DONE.
First and foremost, someone you know was given a name today. Meet Precious Princess Snuggles:
Did I fool you? Her real name is Bow, like the hair accessory. A little bit masculine, but so dang cute.
Today’s other accomplishments were probably more productive, but no more exciting. I have been sitting at my computer for 13 hours now (well, I got up to go to the bathroom once…) working on my Graphic Design 2 book. The past four of those hours have been quite ridiculous. For my cover (which is going to be a poster folded around the main book content) I decided to do a google earth satellite picture. Here’s the bitch of the situation: to make it high enough resolution I had to take 64 screenshots, scrolling over one frame each time and then piecing it all together at the end. The hard part is there are no landmarks in cornfields from space. If you lose your spot, you have to start over (which I did, several times). Oh the things we do for our craft. It’s not very exciting yet, but here’s a sneak peek for ya:
The blue rules are where it will fold around the book. Can you believe that took me four hours? Me neither.
This is where the book is so far:
The problem with this situation is that there are still no words. We just found out that our teacher has to leave for Switzerland two weeks before the term ends, so we have to present on week 12 (two weeks from Monday). Naturally creating, printing and binding a book from scratch in two weeks is a bummer of a situation, so we’ve added make-up sessions. Where am I going with this? I have to present this stuff tomorrow at 11:00, and I think some type would be nice.
As in, mandatory.
Don’t misinterpret this situation: there has been no procrastination this time. We only had a day (today!) between regular class and make-up class.
Usually when I have to stay up all night I can make my presentation and go home and sleep. But this weekend I have two other projects that need this much work, plus portfolio review next week.
If you don’t hear from me again, I died of exhaustion.
Snuggles, Wilhelmina Mae, Georgia (George), Charlotte (Charlie), Pussywillow, Princess Precious. Is it bad that I’m leaning toward Snuggles? Snuggle Puppy? Will it get worse before it gets better?
My studio classes have gone really well this week. I’ve had a lot of good critique, and I’m excited for what I’m going to do next. The problem is, this is always how I feel after class. I take good notes, I make a lot of sketches–I’m PUMPED. And then the weekend rolls around, and all I want to do is get it out of the way. I half-ass everything or let the menial tasks drag on and on so that I don’t have to make any real progress. What’s wrong with me?
The problem is, a few weeks ago I achieved this ellusive finish-early goal; I finished my work and had the weekend to entertain myeslf. But I was a lost puppy with no direction. As has been proven over and over, I need direction to function. Without a to-do list I am nothing but a sack of potatoes with a really big-screen TV. It’s lose-lose. What a sad-sack.
Then again, that was before Precious Princess Pony. Maybe this weekend I can finish early (and with flying colors–fingers crossed!) and play with my little Snuggles. She’s looking up at me all sleepy-eyed, so we’re going to get to bed!
Poppy, Pearl, Early, Maybe, Ruby?
Those are the new names on the list today.
I have major homework still to do for tomorrow. About all I accomplished today was NOT taking a nap. Starting the day with breaking dishes and trying to iron your clothes with them on does not make for a very promising outlook– and today did not disappoint. It was long and I want it to be over.
My computer keeps popping up with a box that says “One of your USB hubs is drawing too much power. It will now be deactivated.” Son of a bitch.
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