I’ve lost mine. Not sure when it left or where it went. Apparently being out of school for two months means you forget all responsible and efficient ways of getting things done. Ugh.

My hours at the hospital have been all kinds of crazy lately. We’ve had two people quit in two weeks, and two people leave for vacation. Ehhhh. Basically a lot of us have been stuck doing two jobs in one day, most of the time. It’s a little crazy. I could be going in at 6, 6:30, 7, or 9 in the morning.  You never know. Sometimes I get home at 8 p.m., and I’m back at work by 6 a.m. Um, not fun.

At the beginning of the summer, I had all these projects that I wanted to get done. Realistically I knew that not every single one of them would happen, but they were there. And I was hopeful.
 
I wanted to help redecorate our study because it looks awful: no one really uses it, since the printer was broken and my parents have a lap-top now. The unwanted stuff has been cleaned out. We picked out cute (Inexpensive! Because it’s mostly for looks.) furniture at Target, and even purchased the bookshelf already. Guess where it is…..? Still in the box, sitting in the garage.  Needless to say, there’s much more to be done.

I started a “college” scrapbook. Yes, I’m a scrap booker. I love to do it, but it takes me foreeeever. I’ve been known to spend two hours on one page, which usually has three or four pictures on it. The craft store here had a huge sale at the beginning of the summer, which prompted my ambitious idea. Most of the pictures are developed, and I have pages up through my sophomore year done. You do the math; I have two more years to cover in three weeks. Whoa.

And here’s a new concept for me: summer homework assignments. I did take summer classes last year, but that’s an obvious reason to have homework. Here I am; full-time job, trying to enjoy summer, reading too many novels, running, scrapbooking, and then remembering at the last minute that I have homework due about every two weeks for my upcoming internship.

 In the beginning it sounded like no problem; around 15 days between assignments? Easyyy.  Which I guess it would be, if I didn’t use 10 of those days to forget that I had homework, one of them to look at it and think “Oh wow, this is going to take a while…”, and then the next four actually doing it. It would also help if I had thought of this when packing my bags for the summer. I would have actually brought my reference books, rather than leaving them back East where they are clearly of no use. Ehhh, oops.

Somehow I did find time to train for, and run in a race. There’s one thing to check off the list!

What happened to the concept of time management?!? And where did this summer disappear to?!

I can’t believe I have three weeks before this internship starts.  I’ve got my work schedule for the next month, showing only blank spaces after August 14. It’s so weird that I’m almost done with this job and it will soon be time to move on to the next...

Posted by Mary Ellen Nunes at 08/01/2008 10:57:59 AM |