so i sort of disappeared from the blogosphere for a while. i have an excuse. im a student. youll note that my online extended abscenses have a tendency to coincide nicely with school semesters. in case you didnt know, what i have done in the past 6 months is make a series of poor decisions, at least as far as free time goes. i not only took up several “life-enrichment” ctivities, but also enrolled in 2 grad school classes (im halfway through a masters of comp sci) and decided to renovate my entire basement by myself. basically my schedule for the last two months has been
monday – work, dance class 1, dinner, dance class 2, sleep. tuesday – work, object oriented analysis and design, dinner, sleep. wednesday – work, advanced algorithm analysis, bowl of cereal substitute for dinner, project runway, pass out. thursday – work, yoga, late dinner at paper moon diner or someplace of the like, pass out. Friday – work, granola bar, coma. saturday – groggy late entrance into the waking world, possible trip to the gym, disassembly of a basement wall or floor OR parging of already disassembled basement wall OR desperately seeking someone with a pickup truck to come help remove disassembled basement walls and flooring, dinner, something resembling going out, death. sunday – repeat saturday only with the addition of a possible raquetball game and the watching of at least one football game, read 2 pages of book i keep meaning to finish but am always too tired to read, sleep.
thats been my life in a nutshell. but with finals coming up next week, while im stressed out as hell right now, i can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel, so i feel like i have room to breathe again. also, dance and yoga classes ended until after the first of the year.
so….hooray free time! boo finals!
whats kinda interesting is that, as a writing and english lit major in college, i really got sick and tired of writing papers. i basically got to the point where i never wanted to write another paper on anything ever again. as a grad student in computer science i spend all of my time writing programs or doing algorithm analysis for programs or coming up with UML diagrams for programs etc. 3 years into this, i would KILL to just write a goddamn 6 to 10 page paper analyzing a book right about now.
when you start to consider 10 page papers as “down time”, something has gone terribly wrong in your 5 year plan.
seriously though, i think i just miss writing. or maybe i miss studying something i enjoy rather than responsibly pushing for career advancement. language just seems so much more natural to me than comp sci. comp sci feels awkward and bulky, kinda like the first year of junior high. ironically enough, thats actually kinda why i decided to pursue it, it felt like something new and challenging. also, it was one of two degrees that my company will pay for and at the time seemed like a better decision financially than the MBA. but now im just sick and tired of it.
i digress…the point is. i have 2 finals next week and then im off school for a little under a month, so besides becoming reacquainted with my gym membership, i should also be able to find time to catch up on reading some of my favorite blogs and to jot a few notes down on my own. not to mention come up with a list of unreasonable impossible new years resolutions to work toward during the first few weeks of january but ultimately abandon halfway through february.