look at the time!

So last semester I had a pretty serious problem with late bedtimes. Often this involved wasting daylight hours, which forced me to use the late-night ones for necessary activities like homework.

This semester I have class at 9 am twice a week, and this has forced me into a better sleeping schedule. Now, better does not mean good, but I have generally been to bed at a reasonable hour.

On May 1st I have to turn in eight pages of sensible-sounding Russian. The rough draft is due on April 1st, which is sort of today. Well, I'm nowhere near a rough draft, but in the last hour I have read fourteen pages of Russian! And understood almost all of it! That's a lot. And fast. I am happy. And I am also wishing it were about three weeks and five hours earlier than it is so that I could keep reading at this pace and actually be productive before a deadline. Instead I have to go to bed now and get up in just a few hours. I think I may see many more late night hours in the next month before school is out.

Old habits die hard.