I spent 3 hours last night writing out 5 year plans, and I’m starting to come to the conclusion that I’m going to have to get a job at Wal*Mart while I’m in college. The main issues I have are 1) Wal*Mart is evil, 2) I don’t know if I’ll have enough time if I start a job outside of school. 16 to 19 hours (depending on how they workout) in classes, 4 washing dishes, 10 or so for work-study, and 56 hours a week assuming I sleep 8 hours a night. All that leaves me somewhere around 72 hours of homework-eating-living-transitions-writing-exercising-socializing-and-so-forth time a week, take away 20 to 30 hours if I get a job. I’m not sure if that’s do able, 52 to 42 hours that is. Maybe if my prof’s had given me the reading lists like I asked and I had a buffer crop of short stories to use in advanced fiction workshop, but I don’t have either. I’m not a fast reader or writer and I’m taking 4 English courses and 2 history courses, I need my spare time badly. Ugh. Maybe I should tell them to forget about the work-study, quit the dining hall, and work at Wal*Mart on the weekends. It would probably be the most sensible move.

Having trouble deciding which of the 8 story’s I’ve got started to dedicate my time to.
1)The one with the fish (I know where this is going)
2)The fantasy one (I know where this is going, and damn it’s gonna take forever to get there)
3)The other fantasy one (I know where this is going, but it needs work)
4)The one about the apartment (I have no idea where this is going)
5)The one with the stripper and that other guy (See above)
6)The one about growing up (See above)
7)The one with the bomb shelter (See above to the tenth power)
8)The poem one with the pregnant lady (Not sure where it’s going either)
My best bets are probably 3, 4, and 5. The rest are just too much work or research. Ugh.

On to talking about something more interesting then my rambling inner dialogue and woe’s.

Oh why bother, you’re just skimming anyway.

In other news I’ve started working out some. I did something good/stupid the other day and went for a 1 hour and 15 min walk in 96 degree weather. Dumb, good that I got out, but dumb. I have the blisters to show for it, those are so going to suck when they pop.