School starts back up again tomorrow. I had a whole month off school there (classes at least, there were still exams), but I sure as heck don’t feel like I had any time off. Work and holidays kept me busier than I would have been by choice. Admittedly, there were a handful of days in December where I got to relax and not worry about work or school or some familial obligation, about six such days, but I had plans for all the things I wanted to get done over December (a new Hover Head story, for example) and I have definitely not had time for that.

My plan has all along been to take Summer classes, but now that I’m looking ahead to another four months of no days off, I don’t think I can do that. If I had weekends off (even just one day a week, really), I could do it, but it is tiring having seven days in a row of things to do every week. I will not take classes this Summer, instead I will make time for things like friends and writing. Try to take some time for the things I just can’t fit into six non-consecutive December days.

But that’s still a lot of weeks away.

EDITED TO ADD: It occurs to me that part of the reason I found the last semester of school more tiring is because I had classes I wasn’t enjoying. I’ve got three new classes starting this week and, who knows, maybe I’ll find myself more engaged and thus more energetic time time around.

Behold! The Dark Lord Char’Nagh arises and reviews our lives for another year! Are you confident that he will not find you wanting? You still have a few hours, so use them imploring his mercy! You do not want to face the wrath of Char’Nagh!

2013 went by too quickly for my liking. I didn’t feel like I really got a chance to slow down and do anything other than work and school. Maybe it wasn’t as bad as it felt, but it felt bad. On the plus side: I like my job a heckuva lot more than I have any other job I’ve had in decades, and I’m still doing reasonably well in school. Still, I could use a nice break in which I could do more things not related to school or work. I had planned on taking Summer classes, but I’m not so sure now.

Anyway, that’s it for me this year.

Schoooooooool’s out. For. A while.

I wrote my last exam of the year tonight, and now I’ve got less to worry about until January. I mean, I’m still working, but I should definitely have a noticeable amount of free time until then. Let’s see how much I can manage to get done with the time.

Haiku!

Spiders on the left
and spiders on the right too.
Spiders, front and back.

Story Idea: “Last Mans on Earths”, a story of the last survivors of world-ending apocalypses in their respective alternate universes all meeting when Space-Time Portals open up. Then they have to team up to stop Another Apocalypse!

The Assignment: An essay, one thousand words long.
Comment Written on Paper by Marker: “Both your paper and your conclusion are too short (1000 word).”
Wordcount According to my Word Processing Software: 1143 (not counting title and “works cited” page)
My Reaction: “Well, at least my concerns about going over the limit were unfounded.”

Seriously, it’s nice to know that all the work I put in to trim my paper down so that it was only 143 words over the limit actively worked against my mark. I just wish I’d had that “track changes” thing active so I could check and see how much I trimmed specifically from the conclusion.

I haven’t really been saying much these days because it has been enough work just to keep up with the comics I do on here. Between school and work, I just feel like I haven’t had a lot of time. Here’s some stuff about how I’m feeling in school these days:

This semester I have a class on pulp literature, a creative writing class, a class about comics and cartoons, and a geography class.

As far as actual assignments are concerned, I feel like there has been fewer of them than by this point and that they’ve been easier. Maybe I’m just imagining that, but on the whole, I really do feel that I’m having an easier time with that part of things. Part of that could be that the Pulp Fiction class is a non-writing requirement version of a class, so most of the essay writing in there is done in tutorials rather than as take-home, week-long homework deals. And also, I took the geography class specifically because I thought it looked like it might provide a break from all the writing and it probably is serving that purpose. Now, I only say that the assignments are easier. I have far more reading to do this year than last. I am mostly keeping up thanks to my penchant for picking classes in which I’ve already read some of the material.

Also, I must have gotten lucky as far as professors are concerned during my first year because I have a couple this year that I just don’t like. They’re failing to engage me even a little even on topics that I am absolutely interested in. The fact that a full 50% of the my professors at the moment haven’t got my interest may have something to do with why I’m finding school more tiring this year. Still, it’s effing November already somehow, so this semester is practically over. This will change again before I know it.

Apart from that, things continue on as usual. Probably I should try to have more to say on here, but I can’t make any promises.