Sleep is for the weak

Senior year is certainly taking its toll on me. Considering that i am taking only 3 classes (well my thesis makes four, but most of my lack of sleep isnt due to my thesis since I've hardly worked on it..eep!) it is kind of mind-boggling how I still manage to spend every Sunday night/Monday morning up until at least 6:30 am doing work. Then the week before break I stayed up til 6:30 twice in a week. Then this week I've hit new lows with a grand total of 17 hrs from Sunday until Thursday. That's 17 hrs over 4 nights which means i'm averaging a little bit over 4 hrs a night. I finally got to take a nap today, which was pleasant. On none of these nights did I go to sleep before 5 am. In fact, this is generally what I see before "sleeping" (or napping as it were..):



Well here's to hoping I manage to pull myself together. I hope I'm not totally dead for our orchestra concert tomorrow night.

I depressed myself last weekend by looking at my transcript online and realizing that even if i miraculously get all As in every class this year I won't be able to get past a 3.87. I know, i know that's not a bad GPA or anything, but I had sort of promised myself before I came in to school that I'd walk out of here with at least a 3.9. It's kind of disappointing to know that that can't happen. This round of whining was brought on since Amherst has already announced phi beta kappa and i sure ain't there. I keep telling myself it's not a big deal but i can't stop caring. I wish I could detach my self worth from my grades. It's pretty pathetic.

I guess this update makes it sound like I'm pretty unhappy at amherst when in fact I'm not doing too bad, all things considered. This weekend will bring some much needed levity with homecoming. Too bad it's supposed to rain. And i have two papers due at the beginning of next week, which probably means I'm not sleeping on Sunday again. Sigh, this may never change...

ansky!

Well I haven't updated this in a while..but who really reads this anyway?

Thank god the yanks have taken the AL east, i may have cried like a baby if they didn't. Now we just need cleveland to get going and make sure those damned red sox dont get the wildcard. I actually went to boston today with the original intention of getting my ass into fenway somehow, but I eventually decided it would've all been for naught so I spent a lovely morning/afternoon with Jennifer at BU and some Amherst friends in Cambridge. There was also lots of pho consumed for lunch and some bubble tea later in the afternoon..mmm. It was quite a bit of fun even if i had to wake up at 7:30 am to go.

Otherwise, things are alright. As with every other week I'm resolved to have a week free of nights with only 2 hrs of sleep/staying up til 6:30 am doing work. Last week I somehow stayed up til after 6 two times in five days and I've decided that's just about enough of that. Time for tiffany to get some work ethic!

I guess that entails me not updating this thing when i've reading to do and a presentation to give in my seminar on monday. eek.