All Caught Up

The past 48 hours was crazy. Seriously, how do people do it?

When I signed up for the online class at SCAD, the class was already a week into session. Unlike UC Santa Cruz’s online program where one week’s worth of material can be somewhat easily caught up, SCAD does give out a lot of stuff to practice, read, provide feedback and join a very active discussion forum. I’d forgotten how much homework SCAD has….

There was a deadline on Friday night for a project. So I stayed up all night on Thursday trying to catch up on all the readings and discussions that went on a week prior to my joining. And what the f*ck…. how could they have said so much in just one week? There were literally almost 100 messages to go through, digest and reply to. I figure after all the reading is done, I’d spend Friday to complete the project… What a mistake….

I went to bed at 5AM (technically I was going to go at 4AM, but Bryan woke up and demanded milk), and woke up at 11AM. And then Grace broke the bad news that the fridge was empty and we needed to go grocery shopping. SHIT! I am doomed.

So off she went to get grocery while I was at home trying desperately to get Bryan to sleep, even if for just 20 minutes. But NO~~ From 12PM till almost 3:30PM, Bryan wanted me to either play with him or to rock him to sleep in my arms (he wouldn’t have it any other way). Thank god to the new BabyBjörn we just got the DAY before, he was able to sleep for about 30 minutes before Grace finally got home.

Holy cow… I definitely don’t recommend working on attention-intensive or mission-critical projects at home alone when there are young infants around at the same time. It’s impossible to get anything done when s/he’s awake. I am glad it’s over now though… This quarter is going to be an uphill battle with a database class and another reading- and lab-intensive Unix Admin class to come.

On a related note, BabyBjörn is a godsend. It should be a required item on every baby registry. It gave me back whole 30 minutes I would not otherwise have.