My last week of school technically begins next Monday (theoretically). As a result, I'm spending all weekend confined to my apartment, churning out as many papers as possible until I'm either finished, or my head explodes. My phone will be off. Chat programs will be off. TV will not be turned on at all. Not even for meals. Meals will be spent in front of the computer. I have pitchers of tea and Kool-aid already made and some light snacks. I will be working almost non-stop, taking small breaks once an hour, until I am done, no matter how many days it takes. No going out. No drinking. No quick trips to the store. Nothing. I will be on full lock-down.
"But why would you have to kill yourself to do all of this? There's no way that any teacher assigned so much work that you'll need all weekend to do it?" Well, yes and no. A teacher CAN assign an absurd amount of work... over the course of a semester. I'm essentially doing a full semester's worth of writing (not from scratch, but a lot of things need to be redone, edited, revised, etc.) As to the why? Because I've spent almost four months dealing with these things, sitting in the library and going over pages and pages of articles and essays and research and notes and trying to find verification and collaboration on facts and etc.... I've stared at blank pages for hours on end. I've sat down to work at home, only to have lost five hours messing with my music collection (damn you, ADD). All the time I spent doing nothing with these papers is time I could have spent doing something fun with ANYTHING ELSE. So, I'm throwing the gauntlet down. I have a bottle of Aspirin, plenty of refreshment, and an emergency caffeine boost in the fridge. It's time to get this over with. I want as much time as possible between the semesters to make up for all of the time spent staring at a blinking cursor for hours on end.
Speaking of, this isn't a post about my nightmare of schoolwork. This is about what I'm going to do AFTER I'm done. On my other monitor, I will have a list of everything I'm going to do when I'm finished with the semester as motivation. It's like clipping a picture of your vacation destination on your monitor at work to remind you what you're working for. Some of these will make no sense. Others will make perfect sense. Without further ado, here is what I'm going to do after I'm done with school.
- Finish the following games I started this semester
Castlevania (PS3)- 3D Dot Game Heroes (PS3)
- Alan Wake (360)
- Dragon Quest IX (DS)
- Guitar Hero: Metallica (360)
- Start and finish the following games that I bought this semester
- Dead Space (PS3)
Assassin's Creed 2 (PS3)- Play every numbered Final Fantasy game (except for the online ones) in reverse order, starting with 13.
- Possibly make a "Let's Play" out of one of the earlier ones. May have a vote to decide (might include Mystic Quest in the poll.
- Replay the following games
- Bayonetta
- Write a few short stories to submit to St. Ed's writing journal.
- Work on Maelstrom
- Read as many books on my "to-read' list as possible.
- Watch the following TV Shows
- Walking Dead (Season 1)
- Dexter (Season 5)
- Boardwalk Empire (Season 1)
- The Wire (Seasons 2-5)
- Battlestar Galactica (at least season 2)
- Doctor Who (finish rewatching season 2 and 3)
- Tochwood: Children of Earth
- Watch the following movies
- Scott Pilgrim
- Iron Man 2
- Zombieland
- As much as possible on my netflix queue
- Cancel Netflix Discs, move to streaming only
- Start walking every day again
- Clean the apartment (should do this first)
- De-stink the aparment (Where is that smell coming from?!)
- Get to 85 in WoW with two characters
Get auxiliary cable hooked up to Tahoe stereo- Fix the satellite radio that stopped working
- Try to have at least one date (low priority)
Wow. I'm such a damn nerd. I really should move these.
(UPDATE 1 - December 23, 2010: Marked off finished and played games. Got the auxiliary cable working in Tahoe, but somehow screwed up the satellite radio. Oh well. Removed Harry Potter, because I won't get around to seeing it until it hits DVD most likely).
(UPDATE 1 - December 23, 2010: Marked off finished and played games. Got the auxiliary cable working in Tahoe, but somehow screwed up the satellite radio. Oh well. Removed Harry Potter, because I won't get around to seeing it until it hits DVD most likely).
