now i'm bored and old

we are only a week into spring quarter, and i already know it is going to be my hardest quarter yet, mainly because of just one class. it's an introduction to the study of history and one of the core classes for history majors. the basic work load has us reading three 300+ page books in a week or two, with some form of homework due every week (including three 2,000 word reviews on those books, and a ten page paper at the end). the massive amounts of reading is what makes this course so impossible. i just don't have the time, with other classes and 22 hours of work a week.

my other classes make up about 5% of the rest of my workload for this quarter. the journalism class i'm taking has homework most weeks, but the load isn't too bad. films & history of wwII is great, we spend the class listening to him lecture and watching old propaganda movies. there's no books at all, and no homework to speak of. history of rock n roll just has a minimal amount of reading required, and the class is 2 1/2 hours of entertainment. so basically it's just history 300 that's going to kill me. that and the journalism course, the two classes with homework, also fall on wednesday, which is my crazy-busy day: work 8:45-2:15 (same work schedule on monday, thursday and friday too), history 300 from 3-5:20, then journalism from 6:30-9.

so... i've decided i'm giving up video games for the rest of the month. i wasted way too much time yesterday and lost too much sleep playing day of defeat: source and sid meier's alpha centauri (which i pointed out to austin ironically abbreviates to form the word "smac," which is an accurate testament to addictiveness of most sid meier games). i originally was going to give up video games for the whole quarter, but figured that was much too unrealistic. i'll take this one step at a time. the sole exception i'm making is if i'm already hanging out with people, and they want to play x-box or 64. other than that, i can't afford to waste anymore time. i can't afford to spend anymore time writing this post now either...