Poor College Student needs: More hours in the day, Motivation & Money.

It's the beginning of November and I'm realizing for the first time just how short a semester is. I can not believe that there is nearly a month and a half left of the semester and so much left to do. My head is about to explode thinking about it! I suppose part of the reason I didn't notice was that I had had something planned basically every weekend from the first weekend of the semester to, well, last weekend. And still I have things planned--non-sorority related--for the next few weekends (including visiting Tim in Cape and going out of town to relax and scrapbook with Allison).

I'm worried about my grades, not because I geuinely think I'm going to fail any of my classes but because I feel that this semester has gone by so fast that I had to have missed out on turning something in! Apparently, I haven't done too bad since I'm failing, which is a relief.

With this constant go, go, go, I'm losing my drive to do anything. My apartment is constantly a mess (an organized mess, mind you) which drives me nuts but I don't want to do anything but sit and do nothing by the end of the day (facebook does NOT help with that). And school, ugh, I need to stop putting off assignments till 2am. Any suggestions on how to get my motivation back? And on that subject, how to get my motivation back for working out, too?

Okay, last complaint, I promise! Money. This time last year I wasn't struggling at all for cash. I had a good paying, full time job and it fit perfectly with my classes. Due to some dramatics and disrespect, I no longer have that job and have been bouncing around trying to find a job that will pay me well and NOT cut my hours to an hour and a half, every day (5 days a week). How the hell am I suppose to keep up in the world if I'm living off less than $70 a week!? Anyone know anywhere that's hiring?


Okay!
Now that complaining is over!
I redid the wall in my living room. I felt that a change would help to moviate me and get my creative-juices flowing. Allison came over last night to "study" (aka, watch Dancing with the Stars and creepily sing into my ear from behind me) and really liked it! I just need to print off some new pictures of my sisters/chapter to put into all those frames. :)

I've got an appointment with St. Charles Community College tomorrow at 2pm to register for classes. I'm hopefully going to be taking College Algebra and Chemistry while I'm there. They'll transfer to UMSL and if I work it right I'll be saving money not just from tuition but also from the amount of gas I'll be spending by only having to travel to UMSL twice a week, not 4-5 times.

Thursday I've got an appointment with my counslor at UMSL and I'll be signing up for courses at UMSL, mainly Spanish and Photography (tuesdays and thursdays) and geography online. I'm beyond looking forward to taking a photography class (assuming I get in since apparently there are only 15 slots). I'd get to use Dad's old Nikon that he bought, used, while he was in the army (if it still works) and that as a child I was basically told I'd die if I ever touched it. Ahhh, to finally be able to touch that beautiful camera.

Tonight one of my sisters is celebrating her 21st birthday ar Marley's in Ferguson. It'll be interesting to go as I have not been on Tuesday before ("Greek nights"). But I do not look forward to all the drunk people on a week night. Luckily Allison will be there for me!

Lastly, I had to read this article for my English class and respond to it. I'd like to know what others think of it too.

Wash the white clothes on Monday and put them on the stone heap;wash the color clothes on Tuesday and put them on the clothesline to dry;
don't walk barehead in the hot sun;
cook pumpkin fritters in very hot sweet oil;
soak your little cloths right after you take them off;
when buying cotton to make yourself a nice blouse, be sure that it doesn't have gum on it, because that way it won't hold up well after a wash;
soak salt fish overnight before you cook it;
is it true that you sing benna in sunday school ?;
always eat your food in such a way that it won't turn someone else's stomach;
on Sundays try to walk like a lady and not like the slut you are so bent on becoming;
don't sing benna in Sunday school;
you mustn't speak to wharf-rat boys, not even to give directions;
don't eat fruits on the street - flies will follow you;
but I don't sing benna on Sundays at all and never in Sunday school;
this is how to sew on a button;
this is how to make a buttonhole for the button you have just sewed on;
this is how to hem a dress when you see the hem coming down and to prevent yourself from looking like the slut you are so bent on becoming;
this is how you iron your father's khaki shirt so that it doesn't have a crease;
this is how you iron your father's khaki pants so that they don't have a crease;
this is how you grow okra - far from the house, because okra tree harbors red ants;
when you are growing dasheen, make sure it gets plenty of water or else it makes your throat itch when you are eating it;
this is how you sweep a corner;
this is how you sweep a whole house;
this is how you sweep a yard;
this is how you smile to someone you don't like too much;
this is how you smile at someone you don't like at all;
this is how you smile to someone you like completely;
this is how you set a table for tea;
this is how you set a table for dinner;
this is how you set a table for dinner with an important guest;
this is how you set a table for lunch;
this is how you set a table for breakfast;
this is how to behave in the presence of men who don't know you very well, and this way they won't recognize immediately the slut I have warned you against becoming;
be sure to wash every day, even if it is with your own spit;
don't swat down to play marbles - you are not a boy, you know;
don't pick people's flowers - you might catch something;
don't throw stones at blackbirds, because it might not be a blackbird at all;
this is how to make a bread pudding;
this is how to make doukona;
this is how to make pepper pot;
this is how to make a good medicine for a cold;
this is how to make a good medicine to throw away a child before it even becomes a child;
this is how to catch a fish;
this is how to throw back a fish you don't like and that way something bad won't fall on you;
this is how to bully a man;
this is how a man bullies you;
this is how to love a man, and if this doesn't work there are other ways, and if they don't work don't feel too bad about giving up;
this is how to spit up in the air if you feel like it, and this is how to move quick so that it doesn't fall on you;
this is how to make ends meet;
always squeeze bread to make sure it's fresh;
but what if the baker won't let me feel the bread?;
you mean to say that after all you are really going to be the kind of woman who the baker won't let near the bread?

- Girl by Jamaica Kincaid