i'm going bonkers!

i can feel my stress levels rising. well, they've been rising at a slow and steady pace all semester, but now it's escalating. the end is near. 3 weeks of classes left before finals start. i still can't wrap my head around that. that, and the fact that i'm graduating. can i just show you all what my next few weeks looks like?

tuesday march 15-policy paper on prostitution regulation due (40%, 10 pages); involved nearly 800pgs of required reading that was plopped down on us. (this one is nearly done)
wednesday march 23- paper due (35%, 20 pages); topic i picked? wrongful convictions
monday march 28-paper due about crime and gender and relating it to girl with a dragon tattoo (25%, 9-12 pages)
wednesday march 30-paper due (35%, 10-15 pages); haven't decided on a topic yet, but something in corrections
tuesday april 5- final (25%) and another final (25%)
wednesday april 6-yet another final (25%)

i mean, i'll be running around like a chicken with my head cut off. wait, no, that's not very accurate. i won't be running anywhere; i'll be buried in my apartment with my face stuck in my books and my computer. it's ridiculous. thank gosh my last 2 exams are later in the month, and they're 10 days apart, so i can put them on the back burner. but it doesn't help that my last exam of my university career is on the last possible day of the exam schedule. but, the day after that last exam, we will be off to NYC. so it kind of makes up for it. ok, it a lot makes up for it ;)

 books, work, books, work... ahhhh

stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. stress is an ignorant state. it believes that everything is an emergency. nothing is that important. just lie down.

- Natalie Goldberg

i should really listen to that. but then again, papers can't wait; try telling a prof that their paper isn't that important ha

hi!

i'm pretty stoked right now..i just finished my last paper of the year!! a big hell ya!
i did about 1.5 pages yesterday and the other 6.5 today--it's worth 35% of my mark-oops...although i think it's pretty good ;) see, that's what happens when you have finals tuesday and wednesday-the thing that is due thursday gets pushed back to last minute (ie this paper).ugh, lucky for me, i had barely enough black ink to print this bad boy but i made it; i have a new cartridge, i just don't know how to change it-new printer and all. (did i mention it's due in 2 hours? even more amazing)

also, it's amazingly gorgeous out today, like about 16 degrees, and tomorrow is going to be a wopping 25!! (80F) holy geez-love it. i'm gonna have to take home some shorts when i go home for the weekend tonight. even though i have another final to study for this weekend, which is on wednesday, i will make sure to get outside, even if it's just for errands with my mom. i'm also making cake pops and pie pops again this weekend, ala bakerella :) so excited.so, for now i'll leave you this picture from last spring at the toronto beaches.
if you have nice weather where you are right now, get out and enjoy it! :)

staring at a blank page..

that's about right....here

this paper is taking its toll on me!! i have to play the role of the defense counsel (or the crown or the judge, but i chose defense) and argue a case about farmer who was arrested for weapons and drug offenses..blah blah blah--a whole search and seizure case. i just cannot.get.started.
it's due tomorrow at 6pm...i am about 99.9% sure i will be handing it in late on friday, and take the 2% deduction. because you know, paper after paper, test after test, i need a damn break! i'm starting it, it's not that i'm just leaving it..but i am working very slowly. and dammit, i will allow myself one thing late! ugh.

so very true...pic here

workin, workin...

last night in the library, trying to get work done on a paper...notsomuch...i got about 1 page done. oh school, you're killin' me...

sticking to a schedule..

this week is insane-and i am majorly stressing right now.
mon 6pm-midterm, tues 12pm-midterm, 3pm-paper outline due, wed 10am-stats midterm.

why does everything have to be so damn squished together!? i am not ready for anything and i am freaking out!! hence, why i should not even be on here....

anyways, i made a schedule for myself to follow today, and i feel a little bit better than i did when i woke up at 6am this morning feeling sick to my stomach. blahpic via

worst week ever

*gloomy, crappy weather--ie grey skies, fog, and rain
*grumpy PMS
*stress to the max with school--2 papers due mon and tues. and i feel completely lost with them..
*no hot water in the shower yesterday or today (yesterday i put up with it, today..nope, sorry)
hmm what else??
*waking up at 7am every morning with my internal alarm -thanks- and not being able to fall back asleep because my mind goes racing with due dates and school crap
*final exam on tuesday night---not ready at all
*doctor appt next wed for my throat-i absolutely hate going to the dr..

the only thing getting me through..dylan coming up tomorrow for the weekend..
lady gaga on saturday and possibly ice skating outdoor in the city
my parents coming up on sunday for dinner

guess my writers block should stop any time now eh??

writing machine

i am almost done yet another paper!! big sigh of relief-well not quite yet, i still have one page left...should hopefully be fairly simple to finish..about how courts develop legal tests for criminal cases dealing with obscenity and indecency..mmmhmm ...

too bad i have 2 midterms next week-monday and tuesday..soo that means ill be in the library and studying for the better part of the weekend, actually starting tmrw morning, seeing as my only class standing in the way of my weekend is tmrw at 6pm.

soo thats all--studying, papers, a lil chloe time, and thats it !

oh, and whenever i shut the tv off at night in my living room, chloe knows
its time for bed, so she heads into the bedroom and jumps on
my bed. 99% of the time, she sleeps in her crate at night still, except the few
times she will sleep with me and dylan..anyways, last night, i shut the tv off, and she ran
for the bed. when i called her to her crate, she just looked at me, layed down and basically
pretended to be asleep...she got me..i got played..and chloe won.
she got to sleep on the bed.
brat