Note to Self: Breathe

Have you ever been so busy that you simply forget to breathe? That's my life lately. It's so hectic! I have three papers due in the same week - two of those three are due on the same day. On top of that, I've been the sole planner of our campus' Humanities Club's trip to Virginia to visit the American Shakespeare Center. Add tending to my four-month-old son, softball practices, and subtract time I'm sitting in classes (and can't work on the assignments that are piling up), then add the distractions of Netflix and Hulu and you have an equation for eminent doom. Though I say not to, I've been multitasking on many assignments, and I'm afraid it's impacting the quality of work that I'm submitting.

But today is Monday. It's a new day and the start of a new week. And I am hard-core determined not to let myself fall behind any further than I already have. I'm still searching within myself and within the study community to find new, efficient ways to study and manage my time. I've given the Pomodoro Technique several tries, and I even tailored it to fit my style a little more (rather than studying for only 25 minutes, I studied for a full hour before taking a 20 minute break). It doesn't matter that I've been in college for six years; I'm always learning new ways to better improve my study sessions.

Featured is a crappy snapshot of my work - pushing through paper one of three; an analysis of ragtime music and its connection to the Gilded Age. I'm still not entirely sure I've got my thesis for this paper where it needs to be, but the good news is that this is only a draft. Ten pages of work for my professor to rip apart in a few weeks. *Laughs maniacally*

Remember to breath & study well, lovelies.

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