Nearing Exhaustion

I think my hectic lifestyle I've chosen to lead this winter is starting to take its toll. Last night at job #2 almost all of my co-workers said, Jeez...are you alright!? I said, Yeah...I'll be fine...maybe by April...or June....

I'm working on two projects at my full-time job until ehhh March or April? I hope to continue the part-time retail job until August or September (assuming I don't go bonkers). And starting this Sunday, I will be teaching a class 3 Sundays a month from 7-9, which doesn't include significant planning time, through June. I'm moving to a new place March 1, and my company is moving to a new office building that same weekend. I'll find out if I was accepted into graduate school in April.

This past weekend was rough. The deadline for graduate school application #1 was Monday the 7th at 8pm. Thanks to having two jobs now, I hadn't been able to work on it much until then. I needed to write four essays, totaling seven pages. I had written about a page and a half. So on Friday, I went on a retreat to my parents' house because I could lock myself in a room and, unlike my house, actually have some peace and quiet. My co-worker friend is a writer/editor, so she was going to take a look at them. I told her I'd have the essays to her Saturday morning or afternoon.

Finished the two 1-pagers and went to bed at midnight. Woke up, wrote a longer one and sent her those three at 2pm. Took a lunch break. Back to work at 6pm. Sent her the last essay (which was actually the first, most important essay) at 3am, knowing it was choppy and a work-in-progress.

Off to job #2 Sunday morning. Convinced them that, since someone who wasn't on the schedule was working, I didn't need to be there. Sent home at 3pm. Received a phone call asking if I could come to the parent meeting for the class I agreed to teach. "Oh, just make an appearance, you only need to stay for 20 minutes." Annoyed that teaching this class has been so disorganized and I still didn't know which Sunday it would be starting, I collapsed in a nap from 4:30-5:30. Worked on the application form until it was time for the meeting. I was gone for two hours.

Back to work. Time check: 8pm. Still to finish: the application form (which involved a lot more writing than I realized), simple edits to 2 essays, changing the scope a bit of 1 essay, and adding smoother transitions and examples to the other. Time submitted: 3:30am. All in all, I'm *really* happy with the way the essays turned out, but last year, this school accepted 6% of the applicants. *sigh*

Graduate application #2 is due Tuesday the 15th. The application form is for the most part finished, but I have to write three essays. I think I will be able to tweak some of the other essays, but I will definitely have to do some original writing. With my current schedule, I basically have Saturday to finish...and/or I'll just stay up till 4am Monday night again...

Don't worry, my writing is much better than this for the applications.