one of those days when I wish it wasn't "study" abroad

Seriously. Yesterday I had a test. Came home and skyped my parents. Spent last night and this morning studying for my test this afternoon. Fortunately, I think this test this afternoon went well. I came home and skyped my friend Katherine (for the first time since I've been in New Zealand. I had no idea it would be so challenging to coordinate skype from being abroad!) while eating lunch.

And now onto this paper. I figured it out and it only had to be about 5 pages (double spaced), so I can TOTALLY do this. After intro and conclusion that's like four pages, and I'm pretty skilled at rambling just enough that it sounds like I have done a lot of work to come up with these thoughts. However, it's for my Italian women writers & filmmakers class, which means everything we have read have either been really short, dramatic, or boring. It's going to be brutal but I am going to DO THIS. I just have to get myself motivated enough to actually do it. Meaning start my research. Then do the essay.

My motivation? Well, I have class tomorrow 10-12 and 4-7, and I don't want to write it in its entirety tomorrow. So my goal for tonight is that it has to be started, at least 2 pages, before I can go to bed. It's only 6pm. Totally doable. I was thinking I could just be a beast and do the entire thing tonight, possibly stay up extremely extremely late if I have to, just to be done with it, but that is no longer my goal. I mean, then I'm going to be a complete zombie tomorrow because that means I'd probably be up until 5am or some other obscene house for having class in the morning. This paper is going to be done by Friday though. Because on Friday it's Classy Night at my flat! Just me and some friends, but it's going to be Classy and if my essay isn't done by then I am locking myself in my room, and I don't want to do that.

Seriously, I know the amount of time I spend doing schoolwork here is much less than at Gustavus, but study?! Really, I could do without.

And let's not even start on the fact that I need to do my Fall Dance Gallery Application by Saturday. Including making a Dance Resume. Leaving for the airport on Saturday is going to be the most glorious and wonderful thing ever.