When I wrote Kapu last week, I had every intention of continuing to divulge various things as my list of topics and ideas for posts mounts in the absense of time or vivid articulation. This past week, though, has just been that kind of a week. I have been looking forward to this particular weekend for probably a month and a half, but the five days before it were brutal, especially when the excitment of “Spring Break” and all I had planned loomed just beyond my grasp.
The “work week” always starts with a Monday of just trudging along, hoping and praying you can somehow make it to the end, and in my case, I would have been happy to get to the next day without totally butchering everything and wasting precious time along the way. Each day seemed to throw some new curveball my way, which on a continuing basis gets incredibly annoying to put it mildly.
Monday, I was going to observe a Husker Volleyball practice, since I have to sometime in the near future for one of my coaching classes. I come to find out, spring practice doesn’t start until the following day and I don’t see a convenient time to cram it in my schedule. I had a light day on Monday, as the days of my week go. Apart from Saturdays, Sundays, and Tuesdays, I spend the least amount of time waiting for things to happen on campus of any day, about 9 hours. During the week, it doesn’t get much lower than that ever. I’m pretty sure I spent that time trying to read Oedipus at Colonus knowing that I would have a quiz on it that I’d fail if I didn’t read it.
Tuesday was the easy day that I spent reading Antigone and Medea in Greek mythology before I had to be at school for Colonial History class and work. At this point, I devoted my facebook stati to chronicling what I had to do before the bliss of break was upon me. That was, at one point, 2 plays->Antigone and Medea, a quiz, a 350 page book, a bible study, a 2 part exercise with about 150 seperate calculations that needed to be shown, a dentist appointment :), 11 hours of class, 11 hours at work, and a volleyball practice.
Therefore, it’s no wonder that I didn’t have a chance to write another blog post or any more of the numerous ideas constantly swirling in my head in relation to my book. Apart from the late nights trying to stay in the loop for a reading intensive history class and a greek mythology class that I enjoy but also want to excel in, (impossible without reading the material) I also had stressful days, often begun before the sun had risen in the timezone ahead of us, just packed with a smattering of this thing people call “school” and often equate to one big party. Hur hur hur.
Now that it’s all done, I need a extra dose of rest and relaxation. Nine days might cover it and hopefully, I won’t have some issue cause it to not be as enjoyable and productively inactive. I hope nothing captures my thoughts to the point of an obsessive compulsion to smolder and grind, as things have in the past. I hope I’m able to sit down and write intelligently and productively in a world without care and cruise to a healthy finish to a project I’ve undertaken for the past five years. I hope the page total I write this week reaches a square of a non-prime number (16) and progress is made. Maybe I might even post the topics I’ve been intending to for the past month but haven’t had the right words or timing. I have to leave it to you guys to decide if they are kapu or just taboo.
JA Menter
I have to say, I know how you feel……. but I experience it on a much smaller scale.
Things spontaneously change, which can often be confusing and frustrating. Most of my stress caused by time is all my fault, though. I a HORRIBLE procrastinator, and lazy.
Anyway, I hope you have a wonderful spring break!