Slap In the Face!

Every year, it seems like I am lazy as heck to start off a school year. I've been in school for a lot of years now, and it has never changed. So as it's been the same again this year, I've been incredibly lazy - more so than I was last year. I think that last year was a pleasant surprise because I had never found such joy in being in school and studying something that I was passionate about. But with this being my second year, I kind of unintentionally carried that entitlement in thinking that I know what this is all about.

People talk about the "sophomore jinx" in sports and how when a player gets complacent, they stop trying as hard after their first year because they know what's up. So, with that being said, I've been absolutely brutal this year.

Usually, it takes something to slap me in the face that will wake me up and scare me in order for me to really start working. I think that's happened now. Unfortunately, it happened a little too late and I am quite potentially screwed.

As today is Wednesday, these are some of the things that I am facing over the next few days. Tomorrow, I have a Greek exam; it is a given that a few hours will be needed to study for this because I need to memorize the vocab and learn all the rules of how the words work. I also have to get together with my Sociology group tomorrow to put our presentation together and get ready to present on Tuesday. At night, I'm going to be going to church to have a worship practice with people I have never played with before. Automatically, that takes another few hours out of my day. All of this is kind of hindering at what I really want to focus on the most: my Practical Theology paper. This beast of a thing is to be ten to twelve pages, and just today have I started to do my research - it's due on Monday. This weekend, I'm going to have to also put together a couple of somewhat minor papers for my Practicum Reflection class, but they're not as minor in the sense that my prof is very particular about what and how he wants the paper to be done. My first paper, although it was my fault for forgetting about it, shows that certain profs like things done in ways that others may not. With the weekend approaching, I have to meet my practicum peoples on Friday; then there is a missions conference over the weekend which I am helping with worship.

Now that I seem to have woken up from the "summer syndrome" that kept me from being productive for the first month and a half of school, I am finally finding the ability to focus - kind of. The main concern for me is the theology paper on communion but there are so many other little assignments and stuff that I need to do, it makes for a very choppy and itchy progress.

So now that I'm about to go for supper, hoping that it tastes good tonight, I guess I found some time to blog and vent out some of the things that I need to do. I would never intentionally put myself into this position for being so cramped for time; but hey, this is my biggest weakness after all. I just hope that I can finish things to the quality that I'd like them to be because I know what I'm capable of, the laziness just prevents me from doing that.

GET TO WORK!