"So Long To Devotion, You Taught Me Everything I Know" or "To Be Human Is To Procrastinate, Because There Are So Many Important Things"

I first need to thank Jesus, Mary, Joseph, the three wise men, and all that is good and holy that Finals Week is over. This has likely been the most heinous of my college career, as I clocked a meager 10 hours of sleep between waking up Monday morning and falling asleep last night. Remind me, kids, to never do that again. Senior year in college and I have learned precisely nothing regarding work ethic. Cheers.

Now I enter into that black-hole of directionless wandering known as "The Break."

Every time I have an extended break from school, I make the same silly mistake that college kids so often do. Hell, adults too, we all do it. We get a few weeks off and we tell ourselves, "Oh man! I have all this time! I'm gonna get so much done!" I feel like we do this in little bursts over each weekend, and if you're anything like me, you get to Sunday afternoon and you realize you haven't accomplished anything besides maybe finally accepting the fact that no matter how many times you open the fridge, a plate of onion rings and a six pack is just not showin' up. But maybe you should throw away that cheese...

My goals for Christmas Vacation/Spring Break/Summer Off usually looks something like this:

1. Lose weight/Go on a diet
2. Clean my room and keep it clean
3. Read some excessively long book list
4. Get a head start on reading for the semester ahead
5. Work and save money
6. Make great strides for my career
7. Start some zealous African charity single-handedly
8. Write letters
9. Write a novel
10. Paint a masterpiece/Sew an entire new wardrobe

These things, never, ever some to fruition. Lose weight? Seriously? Start reading early for school? This is ridiculous.

So for this break, I am going to make some very realistic goals. Things that I feel are still very important for me to accomplish, but maybe a little easier to reach. Let's remember who we're dealing with, people.

So here's my list for the days of December 12th-January 7th:

1. Get all of my shoes with their matches, and put them in one place. Maybe not neatly, but at least get to the point where I can wear two of the same shoe when I leave the house..
2. Finally finish the big piece of art for the living room.
3. Clean my room. But do not kid myself, it will not stay that way.
4. Clean out my email inbox. Clean out Apwonjo's.
5. Do the dishes at least one time.
6. Clean out the fridge. Throw away that cheese.
7. Watch so much Jon&Kate+8 to the point where it infiltrates my dreams.
8. Make my family some pathetic attempt at Christmas presents.
9. Hang out with new friends in Montgomery.
10. Dance.

Ok, now that I think I can handle.

Hahaha. Lose weight. Man, that kills me.

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