Finally. Like Kamigoroshi, I’m done with my finals. I had one last Thursday, one this Monday, and the last one this Tuesday. Today marks the official end of fall quarter at the college; all I have left to do now is take back a book to the college library (Turning the Mind Into an Ally by Sakyong Mipham, probably the best meditation instruction book I’ve read). I generally enjoy college, as well as learning on the whole, but I’m really glad the quarter is over. I’ve not been able to pinpoint what exactly was wrong, but I was getting burnt out near the end of this one. I know part of the problem was that I wasn’t particularly fond of one of the classes I was taking, one on the Ohio River Valley. I like the professor who taught it, and I found the content to be interesting, but I wasn’t crazy about how some of it was taught. (Luckily, however, we weren’t forced to write 500 word essays.) That’s not the full story, though; I know there’s something else going on that caused me to burn out this quarter. I just don’t know what it is. Maybe it’s just rub-off from me being a bit down due to the weather. Whatever the cause, I’ll have some time to get over it; due to some financial aid finagling, I won’t be attending winter quarter; I’ll be going back in the spring. So, I’ve got a few months to get the burn-out out of my system.
I’m not sure what I’ll be doing in the coming months; all I have planned thus far are a few things for Thanksgiving. Thursday I’m volunteering at the church my mom attends, to serve Thanksgiving dinner to people. This coming weekend we’re having our family Thanksgiving gathering, which is always a lot of fun. Beyond that, the plans are hazy at best. I suppose finishing a 50,000 word novel should be somewhere on my agenda for the next 8 days…
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