overwhulmption

today i made the above neologism in conversation with my mother...stupid me, trying to enumerate all the things i'm supposed to have done in the next month or so. there are gre's to take, and essays to write and apps to finish and a hall theme to create and...oh yes...classwork. plus various other little concerns relating to my actual life. you know, like the part where i attempt to have one. right now the other RA's are getting finished with moving-in-stuff, stretching out in their clean new sheets in their nicely organized (probably for the last time, but whatever) new rooms, and here i am in st. cloud, minnesota, trying to pack. failing miserably, but trying. i think the problem with packing, this time around, is that i've done so much of it recently. usually packing has some sort of twisted appeal for me, but that is NOT currently the case.

so...after i finally snap back into reality, i have to iron what needs ironing and then efficiently wrinkle everything again by packing it tight in a suitcase. hopefully i will catch some sleep as well. and then, tomorrow afternoon, i have to drive to the cities and get on a plane. i will arrive in philadelphia rather late at night, and i will take a taxi to my ugly barren dorm room. then i'll have to retrieve the basics from the yale house: not fun. aaaand...well, then i'm in the thick of it. i will have missed a day of RA training (although considering last year i'd say training will be fairly, ah, rote) and a week of essay-writing. and then my freshmen will arrive! and then other people as well! and then classes will start! and then...yep, time to quit writing.

deep sally-hess-style yoga breaths...