I haven’t had a sleep in the last 39 hours. Several things took place before my last leg in the Creative Communications program wrapped up. Sounds crazy, right?...The first time ever I missed taking a sleep was in the first semester of my first year. I had two journalism assignments—one was to cover any Remembrance Day ceremony and the other one was to write a story on any war veteran. It’s not that easy as it seems. My interviews started in the morning and continued on till the evening. Both assignments have to be done and turned in at 8:00 a.m. the following day. I was able to get my stuff on time and submitted my write-ups without any delay. I felt good; but at the same time, very tired.
Yesterday was especially hectic. My oldest child was sick and so I had to stay home to take care of her. There was an event for the current students and graduates of our program in the late afternoon but my plan of going there was scrapped out. My sick child obviously took the lead in getting my attention. Children are always a priority.
I was planning of finishing my advanced creative writing stuff yesterday including the seven journals for my visual dialogue course. On top of my plans to finish my work, I also had to review for my visual dialogue test.
Being a parent and a student at the same time was a huge challenge. I’m proud to say that I was able to balance these roles (including that of a wife and homemaker) in the past two years. So apparently yesterday, I was only able to start working on my stuff at noon and it went on until 6:30 of this morning. Having to skip your much needed sleep is obviously something that I wouldn’t recommend. This morning, I wasn’t that alert that much; I had trouble comprehending others because of my lack of sleep. But of course, this was simply temporary and my senses will be as sharp as before, so long as I get my much needed sleep.
In most of our classes, writing a ‘laundry list” is discouraged. But somehow, I find it useful in sharing the major events of the day that took place today. So here goes my list:
-We had a memorable ‘last class’ in our advanced creative writing. We went to the Free Press Cafe on McDermot and our instructor Karen treated us to free coffee. At the same time, we had two of our classmates do their presentations on the last chapters of the book.
-Handed in my 29-page creative writing stuff.
-Test in visual dialogue!
-Submitted my complete journal assignments in Visual Dialogue
-And CPetty treated us to some sweet desserts—yum!
-Had a pizza & movie dinner with my family (The first time ever since i got into the two-year program).
And now, the only thing I’ve been waiting for is to—
S L E E P.
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