When it seems that you're entire life is occupied by school, you learn to appreciate small chunks of time and the small pleasures in life. 24 hours in day is never enough, so those extra 3.5 minutes you have to breathe can sometime make all the difference in the world. For me, those extra precious minutes are especially valuable on a Tuesday, when I leave the house at 7 and get back at 7. Adding to the already stressful, time-consuming demands of the PhD is taking care of the house and working at one of my additional two, part-time jobs. The house is the biggie, though. General cleaning and maintenance alone is a monstrosity. And now with the holidays here, all I want to do is decorate and be festive. Instead, I get to spend my time (haha, I almost wrote "extra time") reading various SLA books that are on my preliminary exam list, doing regular homework, applying for funding positions, lesson planning/grading, etc. Then, if I have any spare time, I get to clean the perpetually unclean house. Ugh. What a vicious circle.
Tomorrow, I'm taking advantage of an extra hour (yes, a whole hour!) of sleep that was granted to me through the cancellation of a group meeting. I'm giving a quiz, so class is prepped, and I don't have class on Fridays anyways. I'm so excited to be able to go to Starbucks tomorrow morning before another group meeting and use my giftcard I received from a swim lessons family (thank you, Russells!). Saturday, no swim lessons for me, which means I might actually be able to hit up the winter farmer's market. Orrrr, I may just sleep. Saturday night, out with the departamento de español and Sunday begins the eager anticipation of my family arriving for Thanksgiving!!!
Ahh, it's the little things in life that get me through...
-L
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