Sunday, May 2, 2010

Academic Overload: A Day in the Life

My goals are put back to summer for a good reason. It is not because I am lazy or because I don't 'feel like' I have the time. It is because of good old fashioned academic overload. Today is an excellent example of the stressful overload holding me back from my new initiatives. The most hulking task I have is to read and journal fifteen to twenty poems and short stories. This might not sound like a lot, but it totals around 200 pages of reading and an equal amount of writing on diffuse topics. The next major task is almost as daunting. I must parse the entire third chapter of the book of Ruth and translate it into English. The final and smallest task is a two page synopsis of a ten page paper I wrote last week to be presented in Philosophy of Religion. This should come as a welcome relief, and I may do it as a break from the other two project. There will be no other breaks after all. Tomorrow I will have a hefty amount of Greek to translate, but it will be nothing compared to today.

Is blogging today to the zero loyal readers I have a waste of time? Probably. Well...yes, absolutely. I may report back tonight, but for now I am off to work.

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