BUSY!!!!!!!

ARRGGHH! Can you say BEHIND!?

So. I spent all day yesterday getting through the majority of One Blood by Spencie Love, the story of Charles Drew and the legend that surrounds his death. Only had 70 more pages to go, but I got caught up with my mom driving around the city! Good thing is I got out of the house in the middle of the North Carolina thunderstorms… anyway… moral of the story is, I have yet to finish this book, and I wanted to get it done before I have to send in my update to the Fellowship administrators before Tuesday.

This would be my fourth book for this month...and I am looking over my reading track record and to me it looks grim. I’ve completed only four books in the span of a month (plus a few articles). Am I stressing too much, or am I going too slowly? I guess I’ll find out when the administrators/TA’s get back to me. I want to kick myself though…I read at a TERRIBLYSLOW rate (if you take into account the time I spend taking notes and arguing with myself over a passage that I just read… I’m not crazy, it’s just what I do lol…) Anyway, I hope to pick up the pace in the future.
And I need more articles…which means I need to take a trip out to UNCC to gather articles.

Until this point, I have had little luck getting things at home... so I need to speak with a research librarian there. Maybe I’ll take the trip Friday.
Until then I need to go back over my notes, re-organize them to the NEW METHOD that I am beginning to use, I need to complete my annotated bibliography and compile the rest of my sources by t Tuesday. It’s not a terrible load, but I just need to find the time to do it. I do confess, I should have been doing all of this all along, but... you know… it’s the summer. On top of that I’ve been typing up my notes that I have taken on paper (It’s definitely more organized when I type them in Microsoft OneNote.. so if you are doing research I suggest using this program.. it is AWESOME)

Anyway, I’ll get it all done, on top of practicing for my piano recital, on top of waking up SUPER early to attend my sister’s graduation, on top of going to my internship tomorrow after that, on top of meeting with a County Commissioner tomorrow…It is going to be a busy next couple of days.. Almost as busy as a regular academic day at Wash.U. BUT I CAN HANDLE IT…right?

I’ll let you know how it goes... looking at my schedule; I might have to miss a blog post tomorrow—just as I am getting the hang of writing consecutive days (Thanks Dean Herman for the push!).
Well…off to the races!
- Until next time