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Snowed under

9 October 2007 by kristarella

snowed under

There’s been a distinct absence of posting for which I apologise…

You know when you feel completely snowed under with no hope of escape?

Lately I feel like I’ve been productive, but not enough. Busy, but not really. It’s a little odd, but what I do know is that I try to do uni work, but only just scrape through it. I try to tidy up things at home, but never quite finish. I try to get enough sleep, but I’m almost always tired. I get through one wedding, kitchen tea, hen’s celebration, birthday, lunch, dinner… to find invitations to three more.
I’m not complaining. It’s nice that we have friends and family that invite us places and who we get to spend time with. I’m lucky that I can go to uni and be presented with a plethora of opportunities. We’re lucky to have good food that dirties our dishes.
It’s just that I’m tired and haven’t had much to write since I’ve been reading about translation initiation factor IF1!

On Wednesdays I usually go to something we call Core. It’s a meeting of Christians; we do different things in this time. I’m very tempted not to go tomorrow because I have a lot of uni work to do over the next four weeks. I also feel like a cop-out because I don’t know how much that temptation has to do with my suspicion that they’re going to have us go out and chat to random people about god.

I’m going to go to bed and hope I feel more relaxed in the morning (not too relaxed that I don’t do any uni work!).

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