Excessive

Yeah, okay, so I haven't been updating that much, it's really not my fault, my days seem packed... my days feel so full of things to do that it's driving me crazy, making me feel completely smothered and I feel like I'm going insane. This week was a full on attempt to return to some kind of stablized normalcy, however it hasn't improved my mood as much as I had hoped it would.

It's funny actually, but for the last few years, in my mind, 100% not lying, my week starts on Tuesday and ends on Monday. Tuesday is the first day of the week... and why is this? Well, it's because Tuesday is the day raids reset and is the first day of raiding, and Monday is the last day to get things done, so, it's the beginning and the end. It's seeped into my day to day life where in my mind, I see Mondays as the end of the week, and Tuesdays as the start, and having the first day of school on a Tuesday only helps add to this view. I suppose there is no harm in it, and beyond it being midly embarassing as it's caused by being a nerd, there isn't really negatives to having my weeks start and end in my mind differently than everyone else. I've kind of got off track, I was going to speak of my week, and then went to start on Tuesday and kind of laughed to myself.

Tuesdays... Tuesdays are "required school" days, and I'm not 100% sure why I've decided this, but it's a rule I've followed every week except one. I figure it's because I don't want to get behind in C++ and figure I should attend at least one class of workplace behaviour, also, Tuesdays don't require I pack a lunch, and ends early at 12pm, so it's an easy day to go to school. School in the morning, raid at night. From 8pm to 12am, I've got to be online and raiding. So from around 1:30pm to 7:30pm I have free time, but generally the majority of that is spent making/eating lunch and dinner, I watch an episode of Star Trek or Jimmy Fallon, and the afternoon flies by without much chance for me to do anything of meaning.

Wednesdays have been a day off for me this semester, as the classes on that day are forgettable (web design, workplace behaviour and SQL which I know already and is available online), so normally I get up, log in to fanLive and attend class over the internet. I try to use this day as a day to recharge but it usually turns into one of my most productive days as far as school work. I generally read a chapter of SQL, read a chapter of OB, do the OB chapter quiz, and various other pieces of work I need to do. This leads into the late afternoon, which generally just leads up the dinner, and then back into my second day of raiding for the week, 8pm to 12am.

Thursdays are go to school days, spending six hours in the same seat from 8am to 2pm, get home around 3:30pm, just in time to plan dinner, maybe stop by the grocery store, and this is the first night of the week I have to myself to do what I want, which could be... play WoW with Ben or an alt by myself, do some personal programming, or watch a movie, but really it's only an evening of free time, just a few hours.

Fridays, I usually attend class at 10am via FanLive, which leads to a lunch, but then I have to catch a bus at 3pm, work until 8pm or 9pm, and go to sleep by 12am. The entire day is a write off.

Saturdays I have to wake up at 7:15am or so, catch a bus by 8am, and work from 9am to usually 10pm or 11pm. I get home, I eat what I can stomach with a migraine, and go to bed. The entire day is a write off, and a miserable experience I dread the entire week.

Sunday, I wake up at 6am, catch a cab at 6:40, get to work for 7am, work until 5pm usually, or later if it's a bad day, get home, be so exausted that I can barely think or feel anything, eat what I have left from dinner on Saturday, and then force myself to log on and raid, for the final raid night of the week. This night is usually really, really difficult for me to want to play, and I rarely have fun. I raid from 8pm to 12am, as usual.

Monday, I can sleep in, and I do. Generally I've been taking this day off as well, to recover from the brutal experience that is my weekend. I generally sleep in late, achieve nothing at home because I'm so tired and out of it and feel like shit, and at 5pm I need to log into FanLive for business. At 6pm, I have dinner, and from around 7pm to 11pm, I have free time to do something that I want to do.

So, that's my week. I have free time TWICE A WEEK, where I have like 3 to 4 hours to do things that I really want. I feel stretched thin, and unhealthy, mainly mentally. Anyway... that was fun.

I have a huge migraine right now... it appears every time I read a book, I get a migraine. This isn't the first time this has happened, and now that I think about it, it seems to happen every time, but I sat down, ate lunch, put on Jimmy, and read a few chapters of my c++ book, and immediately began to feel the effects of what I've always considered motion sickness. Slight nausea, small headache, just a feeling of not being well. Through the day, since lunch, my headache and discomfort have been growing and growing, and now it's a full blown migraine where it hurts to stand up, to move my head around, to talk, to even think hard about something.

On a completely unrelated note, ever since I got my iPhone I've been participating in various social networks more frequently, mainly due to it's availablity while outside the house, and I feel like, while before all of my experiences were recorded in this one place, these experiences are now being spread out over various places, where only bits and pieces are recorded, and I don't like that, so I'm attempting to think about ways or a way to perhaps collect that and keep it all in one place... I don't really know.

When I do have free time, I've been working on a C++ console application that reads in your iTunes Library XML file, and extracts statistics from this file to display to you, such as your most played songs, most played artists and albums and other things. I've made quite a bit of progress, and learned a few things on the way, and I actually accomplished quite a bit today, special thanks to Ben for giving me ideas on how to tackle certain problems. I'll write more about the project as I continue to work on it.

I'm going to go sit and watch a movie and then go to bed. I've got a midterm tomorrow at 10am, and then work, as usual... the dreaded weekend has arrived and I feel like I haven't yet recovered from the weekend before it.

ps. Bought the new Jim Ward album that came out a couple days ago. Woo music.

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