So for catching up I'm going through a generic blog challenge and answering several of the prompts on it.
I'm not asnwering all of the questions on it- just the ones that interest me. At the end of this month I'll post a list with all of the questions I listed and corresponding blog posts- that way if there is something on the list that you particuarly care about reading you can without sifting through the entire blog. This will save you time as I'm the worst at remembering to label my posts.
I'm only 11 days behind (as of this exact moment) So with consistent posting over the next few days I should be able to catch up no problem.
I still want to try the photography thing- but right after I made that declaration I really didn't take many pictures- outside of the ones of my daughter for a recent assignment. Go Figure.
I've been having the most difficult time managing my time this semester. Because I'm both WAY busy and not busy- simultaneously. I think more than anything I'm being thrown by how much of my time is mine right now. I still spend 2 days a week on campus and I try to get homework done while I'm there- not that there isn't still plenty to do when I get home... But when I get home I'm in a weird sort of twilight universe- the last few semesters I've had a project due every 3-5 days it seemed (seriously that frequently) Sometimes I'd have 3 assignements due on the same day. (last semester I literally did 42 different pieces of art) I already know I'm going to have a grand total of 20 assignements for the semester; and the time requirements on most of them is a lot less then what I'm used to spending.
Basically I have time to really work on my own projects (portfolio, websites, blogs, graphic novel... etc.) and can actually keep up with housework now (really I'm still playing catch up- not sure if I'm truely going to feel like I'm 'on top' of housework for at least another month or so).
So I'm kinda in lost puppy mode. I need to schedule out my days better 'cause right now I'm wating a LOT of time. And not even in a good way- like by playing a video game, reading or playing with my kids... I'm like sitting and stairing- confused as to what to do with myself; which is dumb- I have a LOT of things that I need to do...
So this is a new challenge.
One of the things I'm doing to combat that is forcing myself to spend time cleaning my office. SO it is a more functional room- I have it laid out a lot better now then I ever have before. It's just a process of finding where everything goes. Harder then it sounds. I have a rough idea of where everything goes; but there are a few odds and ends that I need to put away. (I'm writing this on my ipad- and just now blogger has decided that it would be funny to pop the screen between the top of this entry and where I'm typing at every third letter. I type fast- and am getting nausiated... switched from the actual Blogger to the Blogger app... stopped jumping now; but it has other annoyances. :P)
ANyway- what was Italking about? Oh yea- being lost and unproductive.
Not much more to say on it- but I need to be better about time management. It is just a matter of *doing* something every day... The problem is my mornings- when I don't have somewhere to get to first thing I tend to be very lazy. So I need to come up with SOMETHING to do first thing (not exercise; that can be second thing- for some reason the idea of popping out of bed and working out makes me want to snuggle in my blankets more.)
I'm just thinking outloud right now. This is definitly more of a journal entry today and less of a blog post. It's cool when people are able to just write a rant that sounds more like an article- I feel like I need a lot of preparation to do that. Of course they aren't writing every day (usually)
Well I'm off to do something else.
~Nikkie
You can do it!
ReplyDeleteThanks Kimberly :D
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