Early To Bed, But Not Early To Sleep

I'm pretty ridiculous.  The last time I was on campus for winter semester, I had a hard time making it to my 9 AM class.  I know, it's pretty lame.  Even when I go to bed early I have problems waking up early, and who goes to bed early when they have roommates that stay up late?  Admit it, even if you do go to bed early, unless you are quite capable of ignoring loud screaming noises, you're not going to actually fall asleep until they shut up.  Which sometimes isn't until after one in the morning when the boys leave.

I admire people who have this ability.  My dad, for instance, gets up at 5 AM (he sets his alarm clock a half an hour fast) for work every day, and then on Wednesdays, he gets up at 4 AM to be able to go to the temple.  For me, getting up early to go to the temple with Savannah for an endowment session is getting up at 7 AM, her meeting me at my house at 7:30 AM so we can make the 8 AM session.

So, to solve this problem of sleeping in through classes that require participation to get a good grade, I decided that I would make all of my classes afternoon classes!  I start at eleven and end at three, and I don't have to go to school until five in the evening on Tuesdays, and not at all on Thursdays.  Yes, I did manage to have fifteen credit hours despite this.

Hour		Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
11:00a		ELANG223 - 4 11:00a - 11:50a 2004 JKB		ELANG223 - 4 11:00a - 11:50a 2004 JKB		ELANG223 - 4 11:00a - 11:50a 2004 JKB
12:00p		ENGL293 - 2 12:00p - 12:50p 373 MARB		ENGL293 - 2 12:00p - 12:50p 373 MARB		ENGL293 - 2 12:00p - 12:50p 373 MARB
1:00p		CL CV241 - 1 1:00p - 1:50p B104 JFSB		CL CV241 - 1 1:00p - 1:50p B104 JFSB		CL CV241 - 1 1:00p - 1:50p B104 JFSB
2:00p		HUM201 - 5 2:00p - 2:50p B042 JFSB		HUM201 - 5 2:00p - 2:50p B042 JFSB		HUM201 - 5 2:00p - 2:50p B042 JFSB
3:00p
4:00p
5:00p			ENGL218R - 9 5:10p - 7:40p 2009 JKB
6:00p
7:00p

Right there, that's my schedule.  Pretty spiffy, huh?  I really left Thursdays blank in my schedule because I have an online class, British Literary History 2 (or ENGL 292, whichever you prefer), that I probably won't have finished by the end of fall semester.  I'm really hard pressed to finish retaking this calculus class and finish my religion class. I'll be taking my religion final next week, if all goes well, because I have to go back down to Provo to clean my room for inspection anyway.  And Tuesdays I would have left blank as well, but I couldn't find a creative writing class to fit my schedule any other time.  Also, all the ballroom dance classes were taken, so I couldn't push back my creative writing class to next term/semester (I haven't decided if I'm taking Spring term yet.).

The CL CV is Greek and Roman Mythology (honors section), the ENGL 293 is American Literary History, the ELANG 223 is An Intro to the English Language, HUM 201 is an Ancient Civilizations class (honors section) and then ENGL 218R is Creative Writing.  That will be my life, as of January 4th, 2011.

My Latest Trend

I have been watching a lot... which is an understatement... of Star Trek the Original Series with Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner. This is terrible for my homework, because it has gone undone for nearly a week now. Also, it makes me incredibly unproductive. I do as little as possible so I can watch multiple Star Trek episodes in one day. My mother is worried that I'm becoming a "trekie," and while I'm not worried about that, I am worried that I will not be able to catch back up to my schedule and meet the deadlines I set for myself. You see, that's the problem with deadlines that you create for yourself: you know that nothing is going to happen if those deadlines aren't met, so you let yourself procrastinate and keep throwing the deadlines back until it really is too late to ever finish what you started.

Star Trek is also keeping me up till nearly 1 AM every night, which is bad for my health because I am getting up too early. This causes me to further be unproductive because I find myself falling asleep during the day. I have been doing the bare minimum required of me. Looking at this trend I have fallen into makes me realize I need to change it, but it is one of those really addicting laziness trends that take awhile to get out of. My mother has described it as the way I take down time. She says, "Chelsea, you hardly ever take downtime, but when you do, you take it hard and for quite awhile." So, maybe this is my downtime and I just need to wait for the inspiration to start working again. I just hope it starts back up soon.