Breaking up is hard to do

Article of the Day: Don't mess with mice.

I should be sleeping. I have this whole plan to sleep more this year. It's not a resolution really just a goal. I promised myself that this would be the year that I finally break off my long term relationship with insomnia. I'm going to try to shoot for 7 hours of sleep every night, which while not the doctor recommended amount of sleep, it a whole lot for me personally and maybe I can get up to eight next year. I'm averaging about 5.5 right now. Unfortunately for my goal, I feel a lot more alert right now at 12:25 AM than I did at 3:00 this afternoon. I resisted the siren song of a nap hoping that between the reading for class this morning (which was dreadful) and what seems like 8 billion errands that I would be completely out of it by this time. Instead, I feel like I could stay up for at least 4 more hours. I would go for a walk but it's positively arctic outside and plus I saw a possum thingy outside earlier that I wouldn't want to run into at night.

As far as the semester goes (the semester that starts tomorrow), I have completely checked out already. Yesterday I caught myself mentally packing all of my stuff. I'm going to have to snap out of it fairly quickly (by noon tomorrow at least) because I have 4 classes, law review and a lot of assorted other things that I need to worry about before I even think about packing up to get out of here. May is still a long long way off.

I need to make a resolution that encompasses the correction of my attitude. I've been doing a lot of staring off into space lately. It took me four hours to read for my business organizations class. It probably would have gone faster if I didn't stop to do 1000 other things that didn't need to be done while I was in the middle of studying. All I can think about is all of the stuff that I need to do but damn if I can find any energy or motivation to actually do it. I spent an hour wandering around Target today and that very well might have been the most productive thing that I did all day. I'll be damned if I can remember any of the reading I did. I took a ton of notes so that will help me come class time. For now my brain has found a nook to hide in. I need something to coax it out of hiding and quite frankly I don't think classes is going to do it.

I can even put a finger on what it is about this semester that I am dreading so much. I don't have any more responsibilities than I did last semster. I have 3.5 classes and yet I feel like banging my head against the desk. I probably just need someone to kick me squarely in the ass and say "Get going, bitch!" No volunteers please!

I would like to officially announce that my iPod, Pumpkin, and I have officially called it quits. Between its battery problems, dead head phone jack, drive issues and the fact that it was almost completely full, our relationship was not making it. It was a long relationship but we can no longer be together. Since I can't live without tunes in my hand, I replaced it with a very sleek black 30GB model (pictured). BlackBeauty and I are deeply in love already. And considering that I had an Apple gift certificate and a student discount to use for the purchase I'd say that this is the beginning of a very good relationship.