So Much to Do, So Little Time

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I'm so proud of myself. Today I finally buckled down and did a lot of things I've been putting off for weeks now. I suppose it started last night, when I decided I should probably finally unpack. Three weeks after I moved in. But hey, it's done, right? Unfortunately, the next thing I accomplished should have been finished Saturday night: a paper for my 830 Intro to Islam class this morning. At only two pages, I thought I'd be just fine if I woke up at 530 to finish it. It turns out, if you have to learn APA style when you've never, ever before used it, and research a topic you know nothing about (evidences for Mohammad's prophethood), two hours is not enough time to write a two-page essay. So, needless to say, I did not end up going to class this morning (and I feel really guilty about it). I finished it about 1015, packed up my life, and made it on time to my 1130 class (Cold War in Asia -- we started on the Korean War today!).

During my one hour break before my Study of Language class, I ran over to the International Student Services office and signed up to be a volunteer English conversation partner for an international student. I don't know who it'll be, but I did ask them to give me a Korean if at all possible. I figured I owed it to the universe to pay it forward; this summer when I went to do my thing in Korea, I was blessed with an amazing peer tutor that I'm still friends with and adore to death. I learned more from her than I did from my four hours of class everyday, I swear. That volunteer opportunity is on top of the other two I've already signed up for -- the adult literacy initiative and the ESL outreach run by the community. Now if only I could find someone who would pay me for my time...~sigh~

As soon as I came home, I found a rep from the home care/hospice people talking with my grandparents (and a wonderful neighbor who came over to help interpret). So I sat down and had a talk with him about some options we can explore to help out my grandparents, and some insurance stuff, too. Tomorrow we're going to go talk to a social worker and try and get hooked up with someone who can help us get them enrolled in Medicaid and my grandpa matched up with the VA hospital. But I got the ball rolling on my taxes (thanks, Mom!) and the car's state inspection and registration renewable. And this afternoon I finally got ahold of the bank to request a replacement card for my expired debit card.

I still have so much homework to do, and I haven't had a chance to start on it yet. I really wonder if I'm going to make it through this semester alive sometimes. Or at least, make it through this semester all caught up on my dramas. But the two are practically the same.