My first week of internship ended on Friday, and I’m about to begin my second week. Which will start out with a PRAXIS exam (my 6th and final one….!!!) at 8AM on Monday morning (tomorrow). Am I ready? Of course not. Will I ever be ready? Nope.
Within the next 5 days, I have to take an exam, finish the sample narrative abstract, write and teach a lesson for an impromptu observation (that’s still not scheduled!!!), and most importantly, somehow complete the graduate research project’s proposal, complete with all the juicy details for the instructional intervention I have to somehow come up with, and back up with evidence from at least 4 sources that I don’t have. And somehow align what I want to do with the student’s IEP objective, behavioral objective, and the Common Core. So many tables are being flipped right now, and I feel like my brain is oozing out of my skull slowly. There’s just not enough time in the day for anything! And I’ve been going to bed around 9:30 these days, which doesn’t really help. Though I would totally vouch for earlier sleep over late bed time, since it’s healthier.
After I take the 8AM exam, I have to rush back to the elementary school half an hour away to finish off the day with the internship, and then I have the first running group at 6:30. I am going to be one grouchy girl tomorrow evening. Not to mention, on Tuesday, I have to get things organized to run back to my university right after my internship ends, and meet with the professors to get help with nailing out things for the proposal. I will be sleeping over at my sister’s apartment at the university tonight so that I can just take a bus around 7 to get to the exam site, which is at the university.
Everything is so chaotic and everything is due and it’s overwhelming me so much. It doesn’t help that we really don’t have much guidance on anything, because that one week of class I took 2 weeks ago is basically all we get for the semester, except maybe one class a month. I’m trying to break things down, but in the panic mode that I am in now, even that is difficult. (So I’m resorting to blogging instead, right… I should really be writing the sample narrative abstract so that I at least have one more thing completed…)
I really feel like I am on an express train, and I can’t get off! I am hoping that I will get at least some breathing room once the next few weeks are over, and everything settles down (ie: the research project), because I have so many people I need to see and catch up with. Reconnecting with friends is going to be really important for me this semester, because now that I am out of the college world, I basically have no basis for social contact with anyone except my best friend (who’s lovely, obviously, but we’re both looking for ways to get more friends…).
Also, I somehow got myself involved in organizing a 5K for May on behalf of The Aneurysm and AVM Foundation (an East Coast version of the 5K in California), so I might have basically royally fucked myself over. :S I might not even be able to attend the very 5K I organized because it’s so close to the due date of the graduate project. Which would really suck, so I really hope it won’t happen.
At least we got one “ice day” last week, which was completely unexpected, and I didn’t get anything done because my mom dragged me around the mall trying to find some clothes for my internship to buy. Of course we didn’t find much of anything that fit me, but I think we at least got a shirt and one pair of pants or something. Now that I have an internship every day, it’s a little more difficult to rotate something like 4 shirts and 2 pants without it being a tad obvious… XP One thing I did get to do was take a lot of photographs of the bejeweled tree limbs, which were pretty gorgeous, which you can see here (all together), or on Flickr. :)
So after watching the bawl-tastic trailer for the movie coming out in 4 months, I went ahead and bought a copy of the novel, The Fault in Our Stars (John Green), on Amazon. The movie is from Fox, coming out in beginning of June. When my life and schedule settles down a bit more, I’m going to set aside an afternoon and read it. I figured my memory is bad enough that by the time the movie rolls around in a few months, I would have forgotten half of the plot, so I’ll be able to watch it perfectly well. I’m probably going to struggle with the romance component though, because I really struggle with romance novels (and chic-flics).
The trailer’s embedded below:
Alright. Now that I’ve spent a while blubbering and complaining and whining… I better buckle down and try to at least get SOMETHING done!!
Oh yes. I also think I’ve finally developed a bit of an exercise schedule:
Sunday: (Gym) Running/Cycling or Yoga (Morning)
Monday: (Striders) Running (Evening)
Tuesday: (Gym) Yoga (Evening)
Wednesday: Off
Thursday: (Gym) Running (Evening)
Friday: Off
Saturday: (Gym) Yoga (Morning)
I’m basically replacing the Sunday and Thursday yoga classes with running, because at least then, I feel better after I am done. During the breaks (summer, winter, etc.), I basically go to yoga class every day, so I’m glad I’ve found something else to do while my mom takes yoga classes, because I really don’t enjoy yoga. 
But I’m going to continue doing it a few times a week, because I accept that my body gets a tad cranky when it doesn’t get the stretching out regimens every few days. Monday is the running group in the evening (I’m not looking forward to the cold), and I am going to leave Wednesday and Friday off, for appointments and dinners. I basically have to become really efficient at time management somehow, because I am at my internship until past 4, then I have to come home, and squeeze everything I need to do before I rush out for the gym or running group on the weekdays.
By the way, if you haven’t been following the Sochi Hotel Fails shennanigans, you are missing out!!! The mess is just absolutely hilarious!