A Moment of Reflection, A Use of Time

There are a billion things we know we should do but, for one reason or another, we don't anyway. In a handful of pages, I'll be caught up in my reading for last Friday's Modern British Lit. assignment. It's an extremely important and well written book and I love reading it, but it takes time to pore through each sentence - one cannot do this while watching Brokeback Mountain, spending time with the family, visiting, catching up with a friend while printing photos, hearing a story from another friend while printing other photos.

Tonight still, I should pray for my aunt (who is going to have a biopsy and hopefully she doesn't have breast cancer or, if she does, that it is caught early enough to be treated), Tink and Jina and the fact that they are due on Wednesday, my mother (who turns something in her early 40s tomorrow... today, I guess), my friend with _________, and my other friend who is going through something similar, my friend and problems with ________ etc.

Furthermore, there should be room enough at the end of a day to reflect upon thoughts and events. The ideas that have been looming in the mentality of day-to-day studies and ambitions. Should I go for an individual studies? I went to see a counselor last Thursday and was encouraged to take note of the events in which I find myself the most content or satisfied...

1) cooking
2) viewing or talking about films
3) listening to and talking about music
4) taking, developing, printing and talking about photos
5) reading, writing

It's quite a list - I know. So much of this (and all of what hasn't been named) isn't included on the English: Writing major guideline. There are scant writing courses that Dordt offers anyway, not to mention the fact that one of the key English profs that can instruct in writing will retire next year.

Compartmentalize... and, "Who do you want a boyfriend so badly? You won't be having any babies while you're in college so calm down!"

I want to make a mix cd.