OH MY GOODNESS

Wow, I am so ridiculously tired. I was really hoping to blog about the Invisible Children or something this weekend... or blog at all... but I was so sick of being on the computer and researching things that I didn't want to do any more than I had to.

I'm normally the type of person who  needs a lot of sleep (at least 7 hours), but I've only averaged about 5 for the past few nights, and last night I only got 4. -_- Staying up over the weekend was just me being stupid and thinking, 'It's the weekend, so I can go to bed late and get up late,' and then deciding to go to breakfast in the morning or go to the morning mass on Sunday. And last night, I actually didn't try to go to bed very late, but since I had a medium coffee at 8 to help me concentrate, I ended up having to stay awake until 3. The reason I was staying up so late so much was that I was working on a huge project for my World Religions class.

Extremely tall desk. I didn't create this image :P

I was assigned, with a few other people, the general topic of Primal Religions, which we then had to narrow down and write a 4-6 page paper on and do a 10 minute presentation on. Doesn't sound so bad, right? Well, everything seemed like it was going wrong from the start of writing this stuff. I researched the Australian Aborigines and their worshiping of Ayers Rock, aka Uluru. It was quite difficult to find credible sources with the information I needed contained within them. I had a bunch of other homework to do, including reading a total of 60 some pages for my two history classes and I had to study for a quiz in Italian. AND I had no idea how to start my paper at first, so I worked on my Power Point presentation since I figured it could serve as some sort of outline for my paper.

That worked well until I spent at least 8 hours total working on the Power Point when upon finishing it I still had no idea how to start the paper. So I goofed around with my Power Point more, which actually did end up making it better, but I still had to write the stupid paper!! This was yesterday, and I finally just started writing things, in an attempt to get my creative juices flowing. Well, apparently my creative juices bladder has an infected tract or something because I literally had the most difficult time cranking out this paper.

I usually don't have much trouble at all writing a paper once I get going. And that did happen in spurts yesterday. But every time I wanted to move on to a new section of my paper, I began the process over again of trying to figure out what information to deliver and how to deliver it.

In the end, I barely got the minimum of 4 pages for my paper, but I think my Power Point turned out pretty good. And I think I did a good job of presenting it, despite my state of utter exhaustion.

Another thing that's really been getting to me is the fact that it's been so freaking cold outside (at least -1 most mornings, if not less) that I kept getting rather bad nosebleeds. I'm sure that also contributed greatly to my "drained" feeling (pun intended :P)

I'll try to post a few more times this week to make up for the break. Sorry for venting so much; it just hasn't been a very good weekend and Monday haha.

Here's a vid to lighten the mood :)

I love watching this family on Youtube! Watch their other videos if you can, they're amazing singers: all of them!! Plus some of their songs are free downloads on their website ^_^

Until we meet again...