Belated Blog

I'm writing this blog post from The Chimes office, at 3:00 a.m.

This is truly a summary commentary on why you have not seen a new post from me since the beginning of the school year.

Yes, my friends, it is true: The Chimes has claimed my life.

I wake up in the morning at 7:30, and the first thing I do once I leave the apartment is head to the office. Between classes, I head to the office. At night (and at wee hours of the morning) I'm at the office.

Homework has become a sort of sideshow.

However, I have found that this crunch has forced me to be a bit more intentional with my life. I have to intentionally set aside time to do my various tasks. I have a time for homework, a time for Chimes stuff and a time for reading the Word of God. Though I have to admit the last one has been too often sacrificed in the name of the first two.

But I've made improvements even from the beginning of the year till now. I find I am thoroughly enjoying my theology and New Testament classes, even though my mind could be wandering all over the place. I've been going to chapel regularly, and spend a good amount of time in prayer.

But all is not totally well yet. Though I have made improvements, I still am feeling overworked. I still walk around in a somewhat daze sometimes because of all that needs to be done, and my complete inability to process it all at the same time.

And it is very frustrating that, despite my best efforts, I still am one of the last editors done with my pages (and I'm working way more than my allotted hours).

Now, a lot of that has to do with the nature of my section -- people are a little less enthusiastic to write news than they are about their own opinion, or about some new movie. So, I usually end up with people who think they know a lot but can't write news, or people who can write but don't want to because it's too time consuming.

So I'm looking for ways to make this better -- like being more selective in whom I allow to write articles, even going to far as to email people individually. This has worked out good this week, as I am ahead of where I usually am already.


Anywho, aside from all the goo.

I have been getting to hang out more with people, though. Even with all the work I've had, I've somehow managed to fit a lot more social activities into my life.

For the first time in a long time, I actually feel like I have a group of friends that I regularly am around. For me that's really cool, because I've for a very long time felt that my friends are all spread around, with only a few of them being incredibly deep. Thus, though, I'm well known, I never really had much to do on the weekends because I wasn't the first person on anyone's call list -- just maybe the fourth or fifth on everyone's

Apartment life is good. Not home much, as you can imagine, but have been getting along just fine with my roomies. We're gradually accumulating more stuff and food, and I'm feeling pretty comfortable right now. It's kind of a cool feeling, you know? Living comfortably in the L.A. area on my own income -- making myself meals, paying the bills. Kind of empowering :)

Well, it's nearly 5 a.m. now, and we're finally finishing up for the night here. It's a good thing I don't have class Thursday mornings, haha.

Good night--err, Morning everyone.