TGIF / TGFS

Thank goodness it's Friday / Thank goodness for sleep.

Nothing like a nice little 2.5-hour Friday afternoon nap to put the week in perspective.

This seemed like an especially sleep-deprived week (and it's not over yet). I was up around 6 every weekday - for 8 am class twice, for running before 9 am class twice, and today for an 8:15 routine doctor's appointment.

(Although, after this morning's doctor appt including a weigh-in on The Official Scale, I feel glad that I have been putting a little extra effort into exercising this week...)

Tomorrow is our church's confirmation service, which includes 70-some confirmands from all the churches in the diocese.... yeesh. It's at 10 am, so we have to be there at 8:30 because both bell choirs are playing, the choir is singing, there are special instrumentalists, etc. etc. And it is supposed to be at least a 2 hour service.

Then, of course, there's the usual Sunday morning early wake-up time.

And back into another school week!

This is a really tough time in the semester. It's about when we get really exhausted in fall semester, but at that point we get to take a week off for Thanksgiving. It's even harder in spring, with no break and knowing that summer is just a few weeks away. Enthusiasm for class is rapidly deteriorating on everybody's part - students and professors alike. Class attendance is dropping, sullenness is increasing, and my desire to do anything school-related is just about gone.

It's not as though I'm going to spend the summer totally just lounging around and doing nothing, but at least I won't be sitting on my butt in class for 7 hours every day...

I now totally understand why everybody says sophomore year is a killer. I also understand why the curriculum is structured such that we enter clinics next year - if we didn't, there would be a massive mutiny.