Responsibility.

My mom works at a day care teaching two year olds. The character quality that they are learning for this month is "responsible". Last month my mom and I were chatting on the phone and we were trying to come up with a simplified definition of the word "responsible". Here's what we came up with...

Responsible: Doing what I know I should do, even when I don't want too.

Pretty good, eh? I think it pretty much sums it up. In my case...I need to be responsible as I enter the last few weeks of the semester so that I can get all my work done. I am having to do what I know I should do...homework...even when I don't want too.

My current responsibilities include:

• Genetics
• Population Community Ecology
• Senior Seminar Project
  
• Decorative and Wearable Arts (including various craft projects)
  
• Senior Bonner Internship in the Lifeworks office
  
• among various other long term responsibilities to myself, my family, my friends, and God.

Things I have to do before I can graduate (in no particular order):

• Correct Population Community Ecology (PCE) Paper
• Write a second PCE Paper
• Write the remaining reading reports for PCE
• Two more tests and finals in PCE
  
• Finish Senior Seminar Experiment
• Finish Senior Seminar Short Film
  
• Write Senior Seminar Paper
• Senior Seminar presentation
• Senior Seminar poster
  
• Two more tests and finals in Genetics
  
• Make a purse for Decorative and Wearable Arts (DWA)
  
• Refurbish an old purse for DWA
  
• Plan a tree planting for earth day for Lifeworks
  
• Finish the senior bonner handbook for the senior class
• Bonner Banquet presentation

Am I forgetting anything? Yikes....so much to do...only 45 days to do it in!

I'm feeling pretty ok about it all today...we'll see how I feel tomorrow though.


Here's a much happier list....

Things I'd rather be doing:

• Spending time with friends that I won't always have around :(
• Hanging out with Megan Anderson!
  
• Spending time with aquaintances I always meant to hang out with more
• Cleaning and organizing my room (seriously lol)
• Making sure everyone I know here at Mars Hill knows how much they've meant to me
• Enjoying my last weeks as a college student
• Spending time with my nephew
• Reading
• Watching Full House
• Making cards for all the friends I'll miss terribly
• Enjoying spring
• Going to Looking Glass Falls and Sliding Rock one last time!
• Being silly
• Appreciating/encouraging/building up my friends
  

All of this is kinda on hold until further notice. Unfortunately some things are time sensative like once I do have time...it will be too late. I just hope I can get enough quality time in with all the important people in between all the work I have to do.

Oh how I love my list making... :)