Work

Something is horribly, horribly, horribly wrong with me.

I have done way to much work this week.

No, really, I spent most of the day Wednesday in my room, reading books. For class. It was awful. To rebel, I had to spend two hours in the grass tickling little children. Which, by the way, was probably the most relaxed I've been since being here :-D Seriously, it hasn't even been a month since being in camp, but I miss little kids :-(

I was writing a friend just a little bit ago, talking of how I feel like I was wild and crazy and fun all summer, and wasn't ever really that serious. In contrast to that now, I feel as though I have been too serious since being here - at least when it comes to work. It's so unusual for me to do work when I could be watching tv with the guys, or playing basketball with whoever happens to be out there, or finding some random event and joining in.

I think also that the proximity of my workspace to everything draws me in like a magnet and forces me to read. Maybe I should grab a permanent locker down here at the library, then I'd only do work once a week!

I think that I am growing intellectually though. I no longer have the desire to just do the minimum amount of work so that I can look like I know what I'm talking about in class, I want to fully grasp the material so that I can understand it and pick it apart. In some classes, that's a fairly easy task - in others, it requires me to spend 3-4 minutes on a single page of reading. That's way less than fun for someone who doesn't like to do homework.

I really just need to find the balance or work and play, and make sure that I'm staying sane and not being overwhelmed with school itself. I'm pretty sure that that would go against everything that I am (or at least have been) in the last, oh, 6 years, and I'm not really into that.

I'm planning to come down here Sunday or Monday and figure out the picture thing if it kills me! I have around 400 for the trip so far, so maybe we'll just have to have a massive party (or, several, since I have readers (in theory) in so many different states) to look at them all. We'll see!