Balance
This week has been nuts. ¡NUTS! I don't regret taking 18 credits this quarter, but I'm definitely starting to feel it. This weekend marks the break between weeks five and six, and I have tons to do between my contract and my evening Spanish and choir classes. In choir we have solo auditions coming up in order to have a performance in the spring recital on June 1. I'm putting something together, but I don't want to make a huge deal of it unless I know it will be happening. In Spanish I have to prepare a presentation about the preparation and cultural traditions of drinking yerba maté. Poetry translations from Spanish to English are challenging and fun, but time-consuming for sure.
On top of all my academic work I have to balance two part-time jobs with varying schedules. Working nearly full-time while going to school full-time is a delicate balance between sanity and complete craziness, all the while trying to budget time to sleep enough so that I don't actually lose my mind. However, I have managed for enough years to be able to see the light: graduation... one more year and it's mine! I'm going into Week Six of my last quarter as a Junior, and that means I only have one year left until I earn my Bachelor's Degree! I'm definitely taking this summer off from school so that I can focus on working a ton and start the fall off with some money in the bank. Financial aid will help to pay for tuition and books, but I basically have to work enough to pay for everything else, i.e. rent.
So how am I going to balance work and school this weekend? I think after my shift ends tonight at the Greeks' in Seattle (I wait tables at The Continental Greek Food and Pastry Shop in the University District on the weekends) I'll be heading out to some Latin dancing at a Chinese restaurant with some of the other lovely Spanish-speaking ladies from Olympia. But I have to be back at the Greeks' tomorrow morning at 11AM so I'll have to remain tranquila tonight, meaning no tequila tonight. It's amazing how much culture a girl can get in just one weekend in Seattle! I guess this weekend sleep will be the sacrifice, but that's what coffee is for so I'm OK with that.