It is warm and sunny outside*...I didn't know this could happen in Syracuse. Did I enter an alternate universe?

I have so many different things to keep track of over the next 12 days that I keep making lists and lists and lists just to make sure I don't forget anything important. I keep going over in my head everything I have to do:

- Write Critical Response (500 words) to The Tempest supplementary reading.
- Finish research and statistical analysis for project on gender roles.
- Research history of the School Sisters of Notre Dame and women's education in the United States for research project on Gym Meet.
- Review performance theories for analysis of Gym Meet.
- Read for my citizenship class and prepare for lecture presentation.
- Research and outline for term paper on King Lear
- Prepare presentation on Gym Meet project.
- Prepare presentation on gender roles research.
- Write 4 final papers (all 5-10 pages)
- Figure out summer plans (jobs, traveling, etc.)
- Figure out study abroad plans (money, living situation, courses, travel plans, etc.)
- Meet with scholarship office to discuss applications of graduate study opportunities.
- Meet with policy professor to discuss plans for completing my minor.
- Meet with dean of English to discuss the Distinction Program and possible independent study/graduate work when I return from study abroad.
- Plan for Anders' birthday this weekend.
- WHAT ELSE?! WHAT AM I FORGETTING?!**

You know that feeling you have when you know you've forgotten something important but you just can't figure out what it is. I am living in a constant state of that feeling.

At the end of the semester, I need to have basically the whole next year planned out so that I can leave for study abroad. I need to make sure that when I come back to Syracuse for senior year I'll be on track for graduate applications, scholarship/grant applications, and completing my majors/minors/graduation requirements. Leaving campus for a whole year means that I have to do everything I would otherwise have done junior year on campus before I leave. Basically I have 2 weeks to figure out the rest of my undergraduate career.

I wanted this month of blogging to help me use the opportunity to develop my thoughts into more coherence. But right now I really can't think of anything other than what I have to get done. I can't have thoughts about anything except my classes, my study abroad plans, and other school concerns.


*Directly after writing this blog post I was caught in the craziest thunder/hail storm I've ever experienced. I literally ran between two building right across the street from each other and I got completely soaked. I had to wait half an hour before I could leave the building again and go home. Then,   the storm sirens started going off, classes were canceled, and everyone was told to take shelter. WTF, Syracuse?! Seriously?!

**FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK***

***I know what I forgot - ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR ETS 305