---This week/short term---

So, I’ve gotten all of the work done and submitted for my ethics class and anthropology class. For linguistics, all I need to do is show up and get at least a 50% on the final to pass the course with an A.

The tricky thing is my literature class—I have a longer paper I’ve been dragging out (I have sequential notes written that amount to a rough draft—I just need to type them up and smooth it out into something I can submit), and then two short papers on two different plays.

I just don’t WANT to write anymore.

It’s all over on Thursday. Just tonight, tomorrow, then BAM! All done.

I had someone cover my shift so that I could relax a little and get crackin’ on my last assignments for the semester. Of four classes, only two have actual final exams—the others are papers.

So far today, I finished all of the assignments for my anthropology class—I’m getting ready to take a quiz (online) for the last chapter and then I’ll go back through the readings before taking the final.

I have to polish up two five-page papers—one for ethics, the other for literature—then write two short papers for literature, and go over some of the readings from my linguistics class (pssh… I only need to get a 50% on the final to pass with an A).

This actually seems manageable.

Monday: anth quiz and assignment, anth final
Tues: ethics paper
Thurs: lit papers, ling final

isn’t that much. Five pages on four aspects of Navajo culture. Five pages on Wendell Berry. Oh, but eight pages on language extinction.

These topics are interesting to me. Why is it so hard to make myself write these damn things?

Anthropology: quiz, bonus assignment, ethnicity project
Ethics: moral problem paper
Literature: poetry presentation & paper
Linguistics: research paper on endangered languages

Also:
REGISTER FOR FALL CLASSES!! appointment set—next Monday, 8:30 AM (oi…)
pay car insurance INSURANCE PAID!
file taxes TAXES FILED!

By the end of the day:
Take anthro quiz
E-mail scholarship director
Study linguistics (flashcards for phonetic symbols!)
Read for ethics class

Tuesday:
Class
STUDY!
RUN!
STEM lecture

Wednesday:
Work
Equinox hike (!!!!)
Update resume for Metroparks jobs
Get up-to-snuff on linguistics materials

Thursday:
Class
RUN!
Work

Friday-Sunday:
Work
Work
Work

- Sleep in—moderately
- Laundry & tidying
- Grocery shopping _{cat food, red pepper, collard greens, broccoli, hummus, pecans, mushrooms, veggie bouillon, dried cherries, vegenaise (?), fancy tea to replace coffee, soda water to replace diet soda}
- Cooking _{soda bread, B-E soup, chili lime pecans}
- Homework _{anthro reading, quiz, & assignment, reading & exercises in linguistics, reading for ethics}
- Pack gym bag, school bag, lunch & snacks
- Schedule time to drop car off w/ mechanic
- Strength train
- Write
- Knit
- WATCH STAR TREK LIKE A WINNER!!

Tomorrow:
Before work—grab lunch & running clothes, head out to work
WORK!! 945-4
After work—run with Tina, shower, meet Libby at the bookstore, meet folks at the bowling alley/bar, drop in at Grace’s party

Sunday:
Yoga w/ Omar(?) 830-930
WORK! 11-6
After work—Uncle’s birthday dinner

Monday:
SLEEP IN!!
Laundry
Homework
SLEEP

even if it’s been busy.

Here’s what I MUST do in the remaining time:
buy books
buy notebooks

Here’s what I SHOULD do in the remaining time:
clean room
clean closet
sell old books

Here’s what I WANT to do in the remaining time:
sew
draw
knit
bake
socialize

Finally! I’ve barely had time to think about it (One!! One day off since Thanksgiving!!), but I’ve found presents for everyone in the two places of business where I can be found regularly: the book store where I work and the grocery store. Books and chocolates (and fruit leathers for the little kids) have been selected for each and every individual. All that’s left—throwin’ some tissue paper in gift bags (sometimes I’m such a bachelor), toasting (chili lime!) pecans, and baking a few cherry-and-cranberry studded loaves of soda bread.