This week is going to be one of the busiest weeks of the semester and maybe even of the year. Assignments have bottle-necked and I haven’t prepared enough for it. I mean, I saw it coming but still didn’t start working like I had. That is one of my greatest flaws as a student, letting that deadline get close because I feel too comfortable. It’s hard because I find that it’s in those last moments that my best work comes through, but this time there’s just so much to do that I really shot myself in the foot.

Today I have a big day ahead of me and will be trying to focus on my uni work. I say ‘trying’ because my uni work often takes the back seat to my writing. Writing gives me instant gratification. It’s like picking chocolate over having to make a meal more or less.

This morning I’ve set about getting the day ready and have rearranged my workspace a little. I’ve picked my focuses for the day, have all my task sheets up and have my goals for my uni assignments for today and what to have by tomorrow and Sunday. For my Tuesday presentation, I have to go into the uni because there will be a scheduled power outage in my neighbourhood for the better part of the day. Yay. I’m going to book a study room and just hope that there aren’t any rowdy people at the uni yet. The library can get pretty loud.

Right now I’m also having some fun trying out the new editor… when I really should be still going on with my work. My Morning Pages today were actually filled with a strange seriese of dreams that were all interconnected no matter how many times I woke up and so I didn’t have that morning writing session where I planned my day out for myself so I’m doing that here. I have a deteriorating memory and so do a morning plan really helps me with finding my focus for the day and gathering all of the things I need to do and then transferring them to task lists… that I may or may not also forget about.

• 2 critiques to write
• 2 presentations to write
• 1 activist poem to write
• 1 reflection to plan
• 2 powerpoints to plan
• 1 draft to rewrite

And that all excludes what’s on my to do lists for other aspects of my writing and life.

Instead of another tea, I think I’m going to crack open a Mother. And then get cracking on my work.

Critiques, drafts, speeches, final drafts, plans, reflections, readings, writing, etc.

Writings and readings and drafts, oh my!