Important Stuff and Other Stuff

Sometimes, it is all one can do just to keep up with the day. Tuesday through today would fit that description quite well. A week full of projects, assignments, meetings, tests and yes, even a little bit of burn out. When running the race of life, it becomes necessary to find ways to keep the batteries charged. I am hoping that this I can do a little bit of that this weekend. If I manage to catch up on my schoolwork, I am sure that I will have a better outlook on things. But as it stands this very moment, I need to have some critical one on one time with the schoolbooks. Sometimes, when a class gets particularly hard I have the tendency to work on other stuff, rather than working on gaining a greater understanding of important stuff. This weekend, I hope to be able to do some of the important stuff. It may even prove somewhat relaxing as some of what I need to do is just reading. It will just be a matter of setting aside the time to do it.

My father has been a large believer in this thing called sleep debt. I however have remained critical of this theory until recently. The fact that I could fall asleep nearly on demand, provided that excessive amounts of caffeine are not coursing through my veins had led me to believe that I need to be better about sleeping. If I intend on getting up each day by 6:16 am then I really need to be in bed by 10:15. For some reason, eight hours seems to be what I need. Any less and functioning is just too difficult. Getting any more is also quite the challenge, as the time just doesn’t seem to be available. Sleep is such a perpetuating problem. Like today for example, I am just dead tired as I sit here writing, but I am afraid to take a nap as if I did, I wouldn’t be able to fall asleep at 10:15. The other thing I have learned, is that drinking a redbull at noon, in order to be awake for afternoon classes isn’t the brightest thing to do either, as it makes it so that I am not tired at normal bedtime.

How do my fellow classmates do it? I really don’t know. All I do know is that I need to sleep more, and that I need to be more diligent about studying the important stuff.
So the weekend is upon us. There is a list of things that must be done, and a list of things that I would like to do. Let’s hope that I can find balance, sleep, and success in the to-do.