This weekend I am concentrating on large final projects for all four of my classes.  I’m writing sections of big papers, considering how to approach a poster for a final presentation, looking for art resources to support a database project, worrying how to figure out a budget for an imaginary nonprofit that I created for my grant-writing class.  Plus I need to learn how to blog on my job’s website.  That’s a requirement of my position, and it’s not that I don’t know how to blog…it’s that I haven’t figured out how to do it on their site. Or what to blog about for work.

I worked on these projects until after 2:00 this morning or so I thought.  Turns out it was until after 3:00 a.m.  I hadn’t noticed that the clock in my computer had “fallen back” to signify the end of daylight savings time sometime during my six hour writing marathon.  When my back ached and my head ached and my eyes would no longer stay open I thought it was a little after 2:00.  But when I looked at my watch it was after 3!  Katie the dog had long since given up and gone to bed herself.  She was up this morning at 6:00 sheltie time, wanting her breakfast.

This morning I am heading out the door, back to Ann Arbor to do a free lab, practice some stuff for my online searching class that confuses me.  Then I will find a quiet spot and begin writing again, either the grantwriting project or the beginning of the 20 page archival final paper.  

It’s all good.  I’m working on the final pieces of each of the classes in my next to last semester.  I have mapped out some course options for my last semester that starts in January.  I have an advising appointment to review that schedule next week.  Everything seems to be charging toward graduation in April.  I don’t think I could stop this train if I wanted to.  And I don’t want to stop it.  What a ride!