On being busy (AKA wasting my time ranting about having no time on the internet)
I feel like I have so much to do this week I literally don’t have time for it all. I know it’s hard to believe (in fact I myself find it hard to believe) but I have all my final projects/papers on top of regular schoolwork, volunteer work which is usually 10-15 hours a week, work work which is also 10-15 hours, and like 4 activism-related meeting to attend (3 of which I have to prepare materials for). I also wanted to go some direct actions and teach-ins.
The thing is, at times like this I feel like my volunteer and activist stuff is more important than like, papers analyzing literature… ya know? I can write those when people aren’t in need of immediate services, and very little of concern is going on politically. And there’s also the fact that I’m a human and I really need to go grocery shopping, and can’t make myself focus on work right now because I’ve been inside all day and just want to get out somewhere on my bike.
I also feel like going home for Thanksgiving just stole four days of my life away because I couldn’t get any of this done there, and now I’m even more screwed. Does anybody want some of my commitments? Or to at least make me dinner? Didn’t think so.