What a difference a day makes

So, as I told basically anyone I came into contact with on Monday in class, I was ready to come home and stick my head in the oven and light it.

I'm blessed and cursed at the same time with an amazing schedule here in Roma. I have class Monday and Wednesday from 12p - 6:30p and then am off for the remainder of the week. Wednesday night I promote at GILDA then have the following 4 days off.

More times than not, Mon/Wed feel like a marathon, and since I'm such an amazing tima manager, Sunday night's are pretty much just as stressful. This week, being midterms, was no exclusion. I had a 5-pg Philosophy paper due Monday as well as a 1pg (in Italian) essay for Italian.

I, naturally, began all of this on Sunday afternoon in tandem with my mother's arrival in Rome. She was resting for the afternoon and I worked at school. I finally heard from her in the evening and I had to leave my paper (happily) to meet with her for dinner with her business associate Tana.

We got pretty well-oiled off some wine, pizza, gnocchi and raviolis and I headed home. I had to sober up and got to talk to my boy in the meantime, which was a plus. I then put myself to task attempting to write the paper. I had an outline so it was just a matter of stringing it together. I worked until about 4:45a then didn't fall asleep until close to 5:30a.

I was up Monday morning at 9:00a writing until I had to leave for school, where I finished and did my Italian paper in a little under 1.5 hours. After all of that I still had 6.5 hours of classes.

Bottom line: not fun.

Monday night we went out for Kate's birthday wherein the girls graciously invited my mother along. I fed her stories to tell to them and we all had an amazing time. Needless to say going home to bed was in order (even though I stayed up to talk to Chad :P).

I slept in pretty late today but had a date with Toni for some smoking, snacks, her bed and a good movie. I happily honored that commitment and came home completely unwound from Sun/Mon to suss out just what I had going on tomorrow.

Its gonna be another long one, but I'm getting used to it. Midterms here are proving just to be an all-around tough time. I can certainly handle it, but the timing is not wonderful as I have my mom in town for barely 5 days and would rather be at the mercy of her schedule than my procrastination.

Blah, I was going to write about the future in this post, but I'll leave that to tomorrow

(whoa, unintentional double entendre! Go me!)