The 'Crunch' Weeks

Duh, I’m sure we’re all starting to feel them. Assignments are due soon, some of us have or have done mid-semester exams and there’s a cold going around just as the sun is ACTUALLY getting around to shining in the sky!

Yes, I’m sick, if you didn’t pick up the sarcasm. Thee dreaded cold decided to manifest itself in my system last Friday and as a result I was left incapacitated all weekend shivering under a blanket having a flurry of sweaty naps with a series of some of my weirdest dreams to date (one I had last night was watching some old guy who looked like Billy Connolly play a violin but instead it came out with the sound of a cello). This week I’ve been struggling through my heavy 9/11-6:15pm days on ‘energy conservation’ mode and ended up at home worse for the better.

You honestly can’t afford to get sick during Uni.  That’s definitely a given.

That aside, last week I decided to try staying up late a little more on Monday-Thursday nights because I have 11am starts Tuesday-Thursdays and Fridays off. I found that I couldn’t concentrate on doing homework in the house whilst my brother and mum are awake, so it was a matter of staying up later than them to do homework. I was actually pleased with the results – I got more work done! Once these crunch weeks are over I’m going to give it another try.

I am definitely in need of a laptop, though. I’ve taken to NOT printing out my slides for my Psychology lectures in a bid to save paper and to save myself from ending up with 300 pages of social theory and human development by the end of the semester but as a result I don’t actually have much to do when I’m not on a computer except pre-reading for lectures (which I get through pretty quickly anyway). Plus, it’s free on-campus wireless internet (for University students, mind you), that’s always something net geeks like I have to take advantage of!