Worst week for school

Looking back on my title from my last post, it seems that I might have been overcome by hubris. Although I had a decent Saturday morning, my plans were disrupted by Dad’s pronouncement that he was ready to go get the materials for my woodworking project. This should have been fine—I could simply shift my project time to the morning and the schoolwork to the afternoon. However, the trip was extremely stressful, and when I got home, I ended up spending the entire afternoon drifting into and out of sleep. In between my catnaps, I either played my new (mindless) video game or I read, as I lacked the will to return to schoolwork. Finally, on Sunday I realized that I was pressed. I tried to finish the assignment on which I was furthest along, but the way ahead seemed incomprehensible and drove me back to video games. I waited until past the last minute and had to turn in three less-than-half finished assignments. It was miserable.

It was a heavy week of assignments, and in the end I did spend just as much time on schoolwork as I did two weeks ago (and several hours more than last week), but it wasn’t nearly sufficient. I needed to put more time in earlier in the week, so once again I’m committing myself to doing at least three hours a day, at least on weekdays.

Right now though, I’m so distracted that I’m finding it difficult to focus on my reading. I finished a book about the periodic table of the elements, and this morning I started another one. I talked with Mom about it and various experiments, so now I really want to do some more research on it. I don’t really have any progress to report since my last post, given that almost all of the last 48 hours was spent on video games or schoolwork. I did listen to the sermon from the church in Greensboro for the first time since I came home, and that was really nice—I had missed it.