A Frustrating Weekend

Wow, isn't the weekend supposed to be an opportunity to relax and recharge your batteries? To get ready for the coming week? Yeah, that didn't happen this past weekend. At all. As I mentioned in my last post, I had two essays due yesterday and I have a test tomorrow. One of the problems with college, and in my experience this isn't at all specific to UM, as I had the same problem at Wesleyan and my friends at other schools have complained of the same thing, is that all of the major work is clustered around midterm and end-of-term. So you end up with week after week with no significant tests or papers, and then you have fifteen in two weeks. An exaggeration, of course, but you know what I mean.

This would have been frustrating enough of a weekend, but that's not all. Starting Saturday night and lasting through yesterday, the weather has been real ugly here. I'm sure that people used to Miami, who have lived through hurricanes and all that, weren't impressed by the weather at all, but I'm not used to it, so sue me. Saturday night the storm was loud enough that I couldn't sleep much at all. And then Monday, when I was trying to put finishing touches on my work, the power goes out. Then comes back on about five minutes later, then goes out for another two minutes, then comes on for another two minutes, then goes off for an hour. Fun. Oh well, I'm done with the papers now, so I can relax a little bit. Well, not that much, because now I just have to stress about what my grades will be. My first two papers in a year and a half plus, so I'm not entirely sure I still have it. We'll see. And then, my parents are coming to town this weekend. No offense to my parents, but it just means I have to clean up my apartment this week, and I'll actually have to do things this weekend instead of what I really want to do, which is just crash and not speak to anyone or do anything from 5:00 on Friday until 9:00 Monday morning. Once again, oh well.