Damn you, school

Well, I have three papers due this week. Two are your garden-variety, five- to seven-page papers, and the third is the first draft of a fifteen- to twenty-page research project. Thanks to a couple of life-saving extensions, I now have one paper due on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Oh, right - and a quiz today and a test next Tuesday. It's depressing to think about how much I still have left to do this semester, and how little time I've got to actually do it.

I'm not sure why all of the English professors insist on having everything due at the same time (both shorter papers were supposed to be turned in on Monday). You'd think they'd coordinate or something, instead of just dooming every English major to random weeks of abject misery.

At any rate, The next three days are really, really going to suck - which is especially wonderful since I now have all this time on my hands after the end of soccer season, and I wasn't particularly looking forward to spending an extra two hours every day on work. But that's the way it's going to be from here on out, I'd say. English exams in January (which gives me two months to read everything I have to read), followed by French exams in early April (another two months to read everything I have to read for those), and then a mad scramble to figure out what to do with my life after I (hopefully) graduate. That leaves a very, very slim chunk of time left over for things I actually want to do, like sit around and play video games.

On the plus side, I'm looking forward to staying fit/getting fitter now that I don't have to do it for anyone. Working out is great when I'm not worrying about soccer - in fact, I'll probably get even fitter now that soccer isn't taking up all of my time. Strange how things like that work.