Just gimme a chance!

This will have to be the abridged version of the blog post I have been forming in my mind because it is 1am and I am particularly bed-worthy.

I went into today feeling a lot worse about my academic situation than I do now because I have reached the point in the semester where I'm doing more surviving than learning and that always irritates me. What I mean is that I'm cranking through homework or studying for tests and my grades come out fine but I have the pervasive uneasy feeling that I don't retain much of the material. This comes from having a tightly packed schedule that is fine for the first month because it keeps me busy, but by mid-semester, I have trouble maintaining all those commitments. Part of the difficulty is that there is always something interesting to do on the weekends! We took that trip to Rangeley and I spent about a day up in NL this weekend doing fall clean-up work and enjoying my family; I can't become such a geek that I never see my own family.

That said, I am leaving this coming weekend open as a buffer so that I can be sure that I can catch back up to speed by this time next week. I have a good head-start after tonight Numerical Methods marathon.

Oh, and I can't forget about the garden! My mother has been coaching me on green-thumbery and I want to make sure I tuck in the two raised beds behind our apartment before the cold really hits. I guess I should be reasonable and leave it for a Saturday project but I'm anxious to start.

Okay that's it.