12 on the 12th--exam recovery edition

1. Still in brain-dead, exam week recovery mode, I slept in and wasn't productive until an embarrassingly late hour.
2. I broke from my post exam weekend diet of brownies and ice cream to have broiled tomatoes and cheese. It was an interesting snack.
3. Then I had more ice cream.
4. This box of tissues was more full a week ago.
5. I came to grips with my many overdue to-do items, casualties of accounting. The furthest past its due date is "Take down the Christmas tree." It's still on my list.
6. Obtaining this roll of quarters was the biggest adventure of my day.
7. Three of my favorite shirts, all in a freshly laundered row.
8. I noticed that the bathroom was echoing and realized that there were no towels on the bars. It was laundry day for us all. Not an interesting 1/12 at all.
9. My dryer full of warm, clean clothes that I pulled out around 10:00 p.m.
10. Why are these outdoor stairs neighboring my apartment carpeted?
11. My tax reading study guide. I even took the time to make exciting letters to help make compensation a little more exciting than it already is.
12. My midnight snack. Kraft mac n' cheese and broccoli. I should have stuck with the ice cream.

exams week, 5 out of 6

I'm in exams week number 5 of my Junior Core career. Jordin and I were going over our tax study guides while we fell asleep last night and took a break from cost recovery methods to crunch some stats. By the end of this year, we will have taken 18 exams. With an average test time of 2.25 hours, that means that we will have spent 40.5 hours taking very difficult tests. Awesome.

Jordin and I are both nursing runny noses this week. I keep my box of tissues at the kitchen table where we study, and we have little piles of used tissues accumulating. This morning I went to grab a tissue from one of these piles and asked, in my stuffed-up, sickly voice, "Are these mine or yours?" It was a little pathetic.

Exams weeks bring out desperate thoughts and ideas. I find myself thinking, "Surely, I can go one night without sleeping and still make it through the week." These thoughts are quickly quieted when I remember that I needed a nap halfway through the afternoon yesterday even though I got a solid 7 hours of sleep the night before. So I keep studying as much as I can, drinking Diet Pepsi, and taking an occasional nap on top of my textbook.

This weekend, I'm going to sleep, make real food, and knit.

swamped

My week is a crazy one. The Jr. Core eases up on the course load this semester, so I'm working on projects and with organizations outside of accounting classes, which is very nice. More on those to come, but for now, I'm trying to keep my head above water for the next two weeks.


This is a screen shot of my schedule. It may seem obsessive to some to color-code my entire week, but I find that it helps me visual where my time should be allocated, which is important when time is scarce. This is one of those weeks when I will not be able to dedicate as much time as I would prefer to any one task. It's shaping up to be a week when I wish I could forgo sleeping and eating because they take up too much time. (Notice that meals are not on my schedule. I usually devote some color-coded time to them, but this week, they will have to squeeze in wherever they can.)

Is your week a crazy one, too? I feel like this time of the year brings on crazy for many people.