Today I skipped all of my classes. Even my super important morning art class. Last night I nearly had a breakdown. One of my classes just keeps piling on the homework and it’s stressing me out. If I had that class alone, it’d be no problem, but with two other studio classes and two general education classes (i.e. not my art classes) I’m going insane with all the work I’m supposed be able to get done in supposedly two days.

So what do I do? 1- I go crazy and over think everything in my head. 2- I freak out and drop everything. 3- I go read a book. Probably not the greatest solution when about 50% of my homework is due in two days, but if I don’t relax enough, my art homework will show all my stress and it will be bad. I read as my escape from reality to calm my mind and refresh or reboot, if you will.

Well, that still didn’t help me much, so I figured I’d get a full night’s sleep and since I was up til 3:30am reading, that meant skipping my 8am class. I’ve also skipped my two afternoon classes (not so crucial) in order to sit down and get some of this work done. I’m making some progress, but I’m trying not to go too insane again. Tonight I’m going to a concert to be blogged about later. I call it more de-stressing, but I’ll have to go right back to doing homework after the concert which sucks.

Anyway, read “Eat Pray Love” by Elizabeth Gilbert. It’s very good so far.