Spring break

The last two weeks have been insanely painful. I had to study so much for midterms the first week and then crank out a ton of work for mid-review on Wednesday. My sleep habits were in total disarray. While trying to study for history I would read a page and fall asleep for two minutes, wash, rinse, and repeat. I fell asleep in the middle of eating lunch one day. When I woke up, I finished eating and went straight back to studying. For two weeks I couldn't have had more than a couple of hours of sleep each day, and this wasn't even at night either. Whatever sleep I managed came in lapses while I was working away. The weekends were a bit better, probably four or five hours a night but only because I made sure to relax a bit, get rest, and see some friends. It's hard to look in the mirror and not find bags under my eyes these days though.

I almost lost my job - the easiest one in the world where I get paid to sit at a desk and do homework the whole time. The first week I went in late both times because in the morning I am quite vulnerable to passing out. Tuesday morning I didn't wake up at all and fifteen minutes before my shift was supposed to end my boss called my cell phone. I listened to the voicemail later and basically if I didn't go to work on time Thursday she would give all shifts away. Ugh. It's a good thing mid-review was on Wednesday so I got a little more rest that night.

I'd say some good things came out of all that effort though. I did well on my history and film midterms, around 87% on both. The simulation game for my city planning class went well too, my graduate student instructor seemed to acknowledge the work I put into the negotiations and I even showed up in the newsreel for it. I'm extremely satisfied with the dedication I had to studio as well. I really flipped the switch last week, spending the time I needed to and focusing in on production work. I needed that. It's still been difficult shifting myself into studio life and committing to time it takes to do good work. Given I still didn't complete everything I should have for the mid-review, I can definitely improve on efficiency. Nevertheless, the review went well and I received postive comments and good criticism.

I came home later than planned; Friday afternoon I was still finishing some work samples to send to SOM for their summer internship. Even though I was still wiped out from mid-review, I spent all of Thursday night editing and laying out my work. It would be amazing to get that internship. With the grade issues on my transcript, I am definitely not getting the San Francisco one I applied to.

For some reason, today my laptop died on me. I believe the battery died while it was trying to configure some updates on startup, so the registry is corrupted and Windows won't start up. I am a complete idiot for not backing up my work before I left for spring break. I'm feeling completely stressed out over the thought that I might lose all the work I did last week. My whole project for studio is on there. I need some cds that I left at school to even try repairing it, but it might take a complete reinstall if that doesn't work. In that case, I think I could still recover my work. I'd have to buy a laptop hard drive enclosure so I can access my files and save them somewhere else. The most frustrating thing however is that I would have to reinstall all of my programs which is so time consuming. I don't have the patience for that now. I already have to wait until Tuesday at the earliest to have Charlie mail me the cds from my apartment. Why does technology always do this to me. I definitely know how to use and take good care of my laptop but I still have the worst luck. That's disgusting.