Tired me. Didn't get to bed until about 1:30, and had to be at work at 9. Of course, I didn't get up until 8:30, but that still is not enough sleep.

I lack a regular schedule and some days it drives me crazy. I have no set time to wake up or go to bed, and so I'm all erratic in my sleeping, and it keeps me tired. Some days I have to be on campus at 8, some days not until 10:50. Sure, I could put myself on a mostly-regular schedule, but that would require discipline. And saying no to watching movies with friends. And I like watching movies with friends. Or just hanging out, obsessively playing Facebook Scrabble and Word Twist. I enjoy the fellowship. But, it comes at the price of sleep sometimes.

At this point, if I were to get on a more regular schedule, it would be all messed up again in three weeks, with the end of the semester and the advent of Christmas break.

Fortunately, next semester I do not have class until 2, and since I have the power of creating the Writing Center schedule (buahaha), I can pretty much choose my hours as I please. Of course, I have to work in a 10-hour-per-week internship into my schedule (first I have to find said internship), which means I might not be able to work at Ruby Tuesday, which is my everything-but-rent money ... but that's another story.

My brother is in Iraq. He drives transport trucks. Apparently there may not be too many missions for him to perform, but he's had two in the last week. He loves it there, though--he wants to go back, and his MySpace blog says that he is afraid that with Obama in office, he won't get the chance. Afraid. I'm afraid he won't get the chance, too, but for entirely different reasons. I hope he won't be able to go back because of Obama's presidency.

The Writing Center has been crazy busy this week. Undergrad Old Testament exposition papers are due today, and most of the students don't know how to use Turabian, so I've been working with that a lot. Got to give a Turabian mini-seminar the other day--four girls all came in needing help, so we went through it all together. I like it when I can answer questions. :)

But, the WC's busyness means that I have gotten very little homework done this week. I preach on Sunday, and then for class on Tuesday. I have to have everything-but-the-sermon preparation for five other sermons. I am up to the sermon-writing part on the sermon that I am actually preaching (James 1:2-8; maybe I'll post it ...), and am in various other points of the process with the others. And I have research to do for another big presentation, and a paper to write on my theodicy (which will be easy and I am kind of excited to write). Drat, and Greek translations to do.

I did not study enough for my Greek test on Monday. I did not get an A. I know--it's not exactly the end of the world, and my grade will more than absorb the blow, but still. I should have been able to get an A. I should have studied the vocab more--that was where I lacked, and it was entirely within my control.

And yet ... I'm the opposite of freaking out about everything. In fact, I'm downright apathetic. I should be worried about this, I should be managing my time more effectively ... but I'm just not. Maybe it's some early form of senioritis. More likely, I'm so stressed that I've reached the saturation point, and there's no more effect it can have on me.

Maybe I'll try to find someone to work for me Saturday. Maybe something else will happen.

And also, yesterday I smashed the door to a drink cooler into my nose. At Subway. So hard it made my nose bleed (not gushing blood, but still). And now my nose is a little bruised, I think.

For now, I am going home. I need to do dishes. I need to clean the cat box. I need to sweep my house. But, I also need to do schoolwork, to write a sermon, to work more on the rest of the preaching stuff. And I need to shower. Wanna take bets on how much I'll get done today?