burn out blues

This finals week is like no other (unless my memory fails me, which is totally possible). I have no will power to study for my exams. I just want this term to be over. I mean, I always want the term to be over but usually I spend most waking hours of finals week studying. I waste so much time doing nothing just so I don't have to use my brain. Anything is better than work: tv, grocery shop, facebook, wash dishes, lab, sleep, email, blog, be bored. I don't even like half of those things, but for the past three weeks they have been my sanctuary from work. It's kind of scary, but the end is in sight so I think it will be ok. I just took the closed book half of geophys and it was not bad. I'm going to get a burger from decompression, then I'll take the hard half of my exam.

I think I burnt out because I overloaded. I'm not a bad ass and I should know that 57 units is too much, but for some reason (maybe because it was going pretty well until quite recently) I didn't drop a damn thing. I think I can squeak by everything, except maybe 140. I have two assignments that are about 1/3 finished that I haven't turned in yet. I'll get credit if I do them, but I don't want to. Maybe I could p/f the class? I know it's past the dead line but if I ask the prof... I don't know. I would kind of feel embarrassed to piff it because it's isotope geochemistry and that's what I do in lab, but I'm going to get a bad grade at this rate. Yikes, not sure what to do. But I'll deal with that... not today. Maybe I'll just suck it up and do the stupid assignments? Bleurgh.

Next term will be better. I resisted the urge to sign up for 57+ units. I'm at 48 but I might drop down to 45 because I can't risk a real serious take a term/year/whatever burn out. That would be bad.

Wonderfully Wicked

(February 19, 2008)

This term has been remarkably unblogworthy. (Apparently overloading means you have to work a lot.)

One exception was a trip to Hollywood to see Wicked at Pantages theater. As most people know by now, Wicked is the story of the witches from the Wizard of Oz. It's true, Glinda and the Wicked Witch of the West used to be friends. Kind of. Anyway, it's a cute story (especially since I love the Wizard of Oz) but was borderline too "theater-y" for my taste. It's true, I'm not a theater lover by nature, but ever since I heard the music of Avenue Q I've been open to a bit more. Still, I think it's more that I love Avenue Q than I like musicals. Anyway, Wicked was quite enjoyable. I loved "Popular" and thought Guh-linda was fabulous. Everyone's favorite "Defying Gravity" put me over the edge into way too dramatic territory and felt really out of place in the show, like a song they tried really hard to work in for some reason.