8 days before class starts

Today I worked on getting ahead on some readings in my grad classes: Smith, Decolonizing Methodologies, and Freud. I got about halfway through the Freud and the third chapter of Smith. My mind feels like it consumed tons of information today, but looking at the actual physical books, I didn’t get through that much compared to my original goals. But at this point, I’m pretty sure that getting through at least a couple texts for each class would help me out tremendously.

Reading is easy. My problem is diving into the work for my writing class. I have consistently accomplished most of the objectives I had set out for myself, but new ones keep popping up, to be expected. Something occurred to me tonight: you’re always already behind. I can’t let it debilitate me into doing nothing.

So here are some feasible goals that I’d like to reach this coming week:

Routine: less time watching TV, some healthier meals, replace coffee with green tea, regular exercise.

Finalize syllabus and prepare first-day materials.

Finish going over complementary texts, finalize what additional ones will need included for the first few days.

Finalize schedule for first day.

…and make sure I’m not missing anything…