I have no motivation January 16, 2007
I keep telling myself I need to write in my blog. I also have to return some e-mails. I need to start reading economics and get started on next week’s politics. But I just want to do nothing. So I’m now forcing myself to write in my blog. It’s a start.
I got to England safe and sound Thursday morning, although I did realize about a half-hour before my plane started boarding that I was at the wrong gate. I apparently can’t read. My gate was really close, so it wasn’t a big deal. I’m just glad I noticed. Then I got to the airport and wished the flight was longer because I just wanted to sleep. But I was okay because I had the bus ride to Oxford to sleep. However, I got to the passport control line and stood there for an hour and a half. Then I got to the bus stop and had to wait another half-hour. By the time I got on the bus, I was still tired, but I couldn’t really fall asleep. I did run into Meg, a third-year PPE American girl from Regent’s. So we shared a taxi back to college, I dropped off my stuff and ran to my meeting with my tutor because I got to college at 1:50 and the meeting was at 2. But it was all okay.
The next two days I had collections in the mornings. I have no idea how I did. I just have to wait and see. I try not to think about it. The one good thing was that I didn’t run out of time, or that might be a bad thing because I didn’t have enough to write about. I’ll report on that later.
So since then, I’ve been doing politics, watching my DVDs of Veronica Mars, talking to my mom and Kyle, and trying to get over jetlag (I haven’t been succeeding very well in that). I turned in my essay yesterday before I went to rowing practice for a tank session, where I got blisters. I always get blisters in the tank sessions, never in the boat. I don’t know if I’ll be stroke again this term. Actually I don’t know if I’ll race this term. The river is 26 inches too high, and it’s still raining. They said they might travel to race some, but I have a feeling we would have to pay for that, and I can’t afford it, so I’ll just do the practice. It’s not as fun when we’re not outside, but at least it’s some exercise. Oh, I also had my first lecture Monday and put my backpack down in a spilled can of coke under my seat, which was wonderful.
So today, I had my first politics tutorial. I haven’t looked at my comments on my essay yet actually, but I think I did fairly well in the talking part of the tutorial, talked more than in British politics. Our tutor seems to really know his stuff and is going to make sure we learn it too. I think it’s going to be good. So now onto econ questions for next week. My econ stuff I have to turn in by Sunday evening via e-mail and my politics stuff I have to walk to his college and turn in by Monday afternoon. Again back to back turning stuff in and it’s right after the weekend. I’m going to try to convince myself that I need to have stuff done by Friday. We’ll see how that goes. Now I’m getting ready to go to my business lectures, which I do for fun. I have a ton of other lectures this term and lots overlapping or even farther across town than before so I’ve resigned myself to having to be late and missing some lectures. Oh well.
I think this entry sounds a little like I’m not very happy. I’m fine, not too homesick. A little tired of school, but hopefully I’ll get back into my routine soon. And start updating this more often so the entries aren’t as long.