Free time? What's that?

So sorry for that lapse in blogging there, I forgot my password! As you can tell, I figured it out. With that aside, I haven't had much time for blogging anyway. I have 9 days of actual class left (plus weekends and thanksgiving break) and in that time I have to finish a 30 marketing plan, create a powerpoint for that and then give the presentation, write a final paper for my capstone, create the final book for my strategic management class, create a powerpoint for that and present there too. Oh, then add in I'm going to drive 5 hours to my mother's house in order to fly to Indy and back for Thanksgiving, then drive 5 hours home. Oh, and then I still don't have a job and probably won't for a while and I have no idea where to go or what to do. Can you tell I'm a bit of a mess?

I've just got so much going on and I'm not doing a good job with dealing with stress. Like clockwork, for the last two weeks I've been waking up at 3 am, wide awake, ready to get going on stuff. I can eventually coax myself back to sleep but it's getting frustrating. I'm exhausted, can't get rid of my cold, and just want everything to work out.

This is a bit of a rant and I'm sorry but I'm frustrated. It doesn't help that my group members "are over" our projects and don't want to have meetings to get everything done. This time last year, I went on a trip to Portland, OR for my advertising competition class, and came back to face this same thing; two presenations back to back, to huge papers, and the added stress of finding out while I was gone my dog had died (something I've been meaning to blog about; another time). I'm not good with dealing with painful things and I since I had so much else going on, I didn't deal with my dog dying. I still really haven't. I think that's where part of my stress is coming from because it's going to be the exact same situation after I come back from Indy.

I have to go to work but the plan for the night:
-work
-go kick my ass at the gym to relieve some stress
-apply to at least one more job tonight
-work on my papers
-sleep (?)

I know I'll get there because I always do, but it's just one of those times where I feel like I have a lot of climbing to do to get to the top...here I go...