i'm taking a little break...

i'm taking a little break from my homework...i just did a report on amphetamines and learned a heck of a lot more than i ever knew about drugs in general, i think...i haven't had much experience with drugs...so this class i'm taking has been a real eye-opener for me...it's called addictions and family dynamics, and it explores how families are impacted when someone in the family has an addictions -- drugs, alcohol, eating disorders, gambling, or sexual addictions...and maybe a few things in between, too...

goodness, before this class started i automaticall thought of drugs and/or alcohol when i heard the word addiction....i didn't even really think to associate it with food/eating, gambling, pornography, video games, or anything like that...

so even that has been stretching me and causing me to change my thinking to a certain extent...

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it's grey and rainy here today, and part of me is glad...because i have all of this homework to do, i needed to have as few distractions/reasons to put it off yet again as possible...it is, after all, due monday...i work monday morning until 11:30 then i have a few things i'll be doing then i've got a doctor's appointment and then class...so working on it last minute monday would be out of the question, really...and tomorrow my morning at least will be tied up with church...and then sometimes things come up sunday afternoons - invitations to go out to eat, or an invitation to go to a neighbour's house to go visit or just going out with my mom and doing something....so, i made today my "do homework at all costs" day...

ideally, i'd really like to be out fishing right now, but the weather is not really the best for such an activity...and also, again, there's the whole homework factor...

i guess if you have to be stuck inside doing homework, you may as well be stuck inside doing homework on a rainy day...

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anyways, i still have another small report to do, so i need to work on that...and i've also got two academic journal entries i must do today as well...

last week, i was realy, really bad...i did some of my homework during the sermon sunday morning at church....nobody really caught on to what i wa doing, for all they knew, i was taking noties...but what i was actually doing was writing in a notebook some thoughts/ideas for one of my entries for my academic journal....

i promised myself that i wouldn't pull that stunt again, so i really need to buckle down and get with the program here...

it's been rough because i started back to work at the same time i started going back to classes, so i'm really trying to find that delicate balance, plus have enough time to do the thins i want to do/need to do for my own health and sanity...

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have a great weekend everyone....i'll try and post more when i can...

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how i woke up this morning: a friend of mine, patrice, phoned me to thank me for some cd's i made for her...(i felt bad sleeping in so late -- 9:30!!...but i mist have needed it...i've not gotten to bed before midnight almost all week...)

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one good thing that happened today: i had a male monarch butterfly hatch in my house...when is wings were dried off enough, i placed him on the pulley clothes line, under the little overhang that comes off the porch over the cement steps...i figured there he wouldn't get rained on, but he could be outside when he decided he wanted to take flight....