Let's just sum up my week simply.

[mandolin]

To the people who have managed to hold down a full-time job, maintain a house and take two graduate-level classes in one semester:

HOW DO YOU DO IT??

That is all.

Comments

[marielogan.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I'll go out on a limb and say I remember at 27, holding down a house, a full time job, and some college courses. It was awful.

Hang in there, Mandi.

[bktheirregular]

Years and years of psychotherapy. :)

[ecogryff.livejournal.com]

i'm guessing drugs...lots of drugs (or possibly self induced psychosis). hell, i can barely do full time grad school and maintain my apartment. hang in there, hon'. *hugs*

[tex-garg.livejournal.com]

NOOOOOOO sleep X_X

[violetbloom.livejournal.com]

At least you don't have kids yet...

[weirdweb.livejournal.com]

Even I wouldn't try to juggle kids, job and grad school at the same time. :)

[cmar-wingnut.livejournal.com]

I've done it. It's a heck of a lot of work. Don't think I could have handled it if I had kids.

All through grad school I got the school dreams again, the ones where you have a final but you forgot to go to class all semester so you know nothing and you can't even find the classroom... *brrrrr*

[ithilienne]

hi, i came here from customers_suck but i saw that you were from MD and was wondering what part? my boyfriend is at UMBC right now, and we both hail from columbia. :)

[weirdweb.livejournal.com]

Catonsville area, actually.

So at least I don't have to drive an hour to get to school on top of everything else. :)

[jennies.livejournal.com]

Most people I've seen either (a) budget time like a mad accountant, or (b) become addicted to coffee, sleeping pills, and/or Prozac. There is an option (c), but it generally involves a spouse to farm housekeeping tasks out to.

Although, it seems to be more of an issue of free time and focus. If, minus the classes, one has at least 6 hours of free time (by which I mean time not spent at work or asleep) a day, then theoretically it can be done. BUT - and this is important - one must always maintain the ability to take a step back from at least one task and RELAX.

....then again, I'm the insomno-maniacal lunatic with 40 hobbies. ^_^;


Sorry life seems to be stressing you out so much lately. Let me know if I can help with anything. (Really. I can't do readings for you, but the creativity demons are good with research and household chores....)

[weirdweb.livejournal.com]

I'm okay. I'm actually on top of things, and it turned out Dr. Zhang let me slide on the essay question because I answered the second half so well, but there's just a LOT of stuff to stay on top of. Other than tonight's Anime Society meeting, I have no plans this weekend aside from cleaning and homework, and for my sanity it's going to stay that way.

(But if you can come up with a way to get a working database of movie ratings and users up without being able to use Oracle or killing the memory of the computers we have available, let me know. Warren = still no home PC, Mike = abused Gateway, me = iMac.)