May is already over?

Hey Everyone,

Sorry I fell through on my commitment to write every week.  Again.  I feel no shame though, because I have been legitimately busy.  My field study prep course is really showing no mercy these days.  It has me in a full Nelson, and I think parts of me are going numb.  That's what I get for taking the hardest course of my life during spring term, when everything is due in a rapid succession that is twice as fast as the normal rapid succession during the full semesters.  I have just finished writing the first draft of a 6 page paper that is part of my final research proposal that I will be submitting to various professors and possible grant donors.  The final paper will be about 20 pages I think, including sections describing my proposed course of action, and a fat bibliography.  It's already three pages long and I still have almost a month left before the term is over.  I expect it to double in length at least once before it's due.

For Memorial Day, I celebrated by doing homework mostly, but I also watched a few movies, stayed out late a couple of nights, played some volleyball, accidentally slept through my grammar class on Friday to start my weekend early, and had a picnic on Saturday morning and Monday evening.  This list is not chronological at all.

I quit my job this week.  It was kind of sad because I liked it so much, and I liked the people I worked with.  I have a funny story to tell about that.  On Friday my bishop called me and asked me to speak in church.  I told him that I was scheduled to work, and that I would try to get it off, but I couldn't promise him that I would be there.  I ended up getting someone to cover my shift, and I made it to church.  The topic that would have been assigned to me happened to be keeping the Sabbath day holy.  I thought it was ironic.  I got a new assignment for a different day now.  And I won't ever have to worry about getting Sundays off anymore.  I was getting frustrated that I was scheduled to work every single Sunday since I was hired.  I got most of them off, but now I have every day off.

I'm really tired, and right now I'm stressed out of my mind.  I'm going to go unwind a little because I can tell that any life and energy and creativity I may have had today is completely drained out of me.  Have a great week.

Brian