Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Um Help I'm Overwhelmed

I've just spent close to two hours reading what I consider the most boring book ever--Ghost Town by Robert Coover. It's supposed to be a "blunt, profanity-laced existentialist" western, according to the back cover. But frankly, I really can't understand what it's talking about. In fact, I think for the past half an hour I spent outside on the Engineering Quad, I've probably read the same paragraph 10 times.

On top of that, I'm extremely stressed because I have:
  • a final exam tomorrow night and I basically haven't started studying
  • the CS 501 project to finish on Friday
  • another take-home final exam (which will definitely be excrutiatingly hard) to do over the weekend
  • to contact Big Red Boxes so they can come get my stuff next week when I leave
  • to find housing for my summer internship in little over a week
  • to buy plane tickets for the last weekend of May
  • to deal with car rental people in California so that hopefully I'll have a car for the summer
To make matters worse, here's how I deal with stress. I pretty much deal with it the worst way possible--I put it off. That is, I put off what I have to do until later, which in turn creates more stress. It's an endless cycle which will ultimately result in my doooooooooom.

Oh, did I mention that I spent 6 hours on the phone last night with a friend and didn't go to sleep until after 4am? (My cell phone literally reads: 400m 5s )

Simply put, I am not amused...not amused at all...

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