i am a fail whale

if you're not on twitter, you may not know what the fail whale is, which is probably a good thing. twitter is highly addictive; don't join it if you value your time :) i find it a little ironic/amusing/aggravating that as i write this, the fail whale is taunting me. "too many tweets" is exactly how i'm feeling at the moment. i've reached the point in the semester where i'm constantly freaking out about everything

it's post-midterms, but there are still a million things to read, write and study. my one class has a group project; my group still hasn't discussed how we want to approach it. i respond well to deadlines (85% of the time) so it'd be nice if we got the ball rolling. one month goes quicker than you think... i have my 2nd exam next week for my other class. currently, i feel ok with the material but i know i'll be panicking by sunday. at which point, i'll be too overwhelmed and behind to study

on top of class, i'm working full time. i was part of a transition group from 2008 through mid-2009, and i still get questions and tasks related to that transition. the latest item is the 401k audit, which is full of questions i'm not even sure where to begin answering. they want all the questionnaires back by close of business (COB) today, which would've been fine except i have my actual job responsibilities to manage. last week, i was covering for my coworker while she was on vacation. the one task that fell under my scope took about five minutes though. additionally, my boss gave me a menial task on wednesday that needed to be finished by COB friday so that it'd be ready this morning. i managed to finish it and scoot out of the office around 330... but i wasn't able to do much on the audit. i ended up bringing my laptop home to work over the weekend, not that i got much done because...

i turned 26 this weekend. so i didn't do jack on saturday except eat too much cake and play silly online games. sunday, i celebrated over brunch with my family and best friend/roomie. N and i drove around for a little afterwards, not realizing everything would be closed early for easter. i promptly went into a birthday cake induced coma when we got home so i lost another hour in my day. i was woken up by a belated birthday call from one of my girls. then i talked to my boyfriend; he's another layer in the madness :) he had to work, but it was pretty dead at the office so lots of weblinks were shared lol. i did manage to get the home office a bit cleaned up and organized. finally put my books away, brought up the small bookcase so N could put his books away and sorted through a couple boxes of papers. even though we still have a jillion boxes downstairs to unpack, i wanted to make sure the office got the most attention because...

we're having visitors two weekends out of the next three. i'm excited to see my girls, but i'm stressing that we won't get everything put away in time. we've been here a month and are still living out of boxes it seems. luckily, all that's left upstairs are N's books. then the floor will be cleared enough for the air mattress and sleeping bags. thank god we have an untouched bathroom up there too. i couldnt handle having to deep clean for guests with all the other stuff i'm trying to accomplish before the end of the semester

ahhhhhhhhhhh the end of the semester. it's gotten late enough that people are starting to make summer plans. i've opted not to take a summer class (thank you transfer credits) so i have only my work schedule to manipulate, but i still need to finish out this semester. hundreds of pages to read, three exams and one group project... plus friends... plus boyfriend... plus ridiculous job....

"we're over capacity. please try again later"