Priorities

Reasons I am ALREADY behind on my independent research and internship work:

1. I checked my minutes on my phone yesterday, and in 15 days I have spent over 40 hours talking on my cell phone. Since I don't talk on my phone while I am at work (very often) that is only counting time I am not at work. I have also used over 700 text messages.

2. I seem to think going out of town on the weekends and extensive time spent socializing (again not time I am on my phone)is essential to my very existence.

3. Season premieres that span a 2 week segment of time.

4. The ability to access IM, Myspace and Facebook from my phone (again after work hours), since I spend about 6 of the 8 work hours doing these on an actual computer.

5. This blog. It gets updated everyday, while I have no clue when the last time was that I read about Environmental Sociology, or anything pertaining to the Green Movement.

Things I cannot use as excuses for being behind on schoolwork...

1. Exercise. Thanks to my torn cartilage in my knee and sheer laziness this is sporadic at best, although being in school will most definitely be blamed for the added pounds that I will most definitely have accrued by Christmas.

2. My clean house, because it looks like a tornado, hurricane and then a monsoon came through. I should be calling the Haz Mat Team anyday now (you know if I could find the time). The same applies to my car.

3. Work. I may be here 40 hours a week, but seriously my job lends me more than enough time to do the necessary work and still get some research done.

4. Volunteering. Not only does my current volunteering venture only take place once a week for 2 hours, but I haven't attended in 2 weeks.

5. Sickness...oddly enough (knock on wood) I have managed to escape the usual 3 weeks into school illness that hits me.

Needless to say I need to get my priorities straight :)

* This is in no way meant to discourage people from calling me (remember I can be very sensitive and we'd hate for me to have to add obsessing over why I have no friends to the list of reasons I can't seem to get my research and papers done).