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If I ever meet the guy who invented mornings, I am going to kick him directly in the groin. Unless mornings were invented by a woman. Because then, while she may still have a groin, kicking her in it wouldn’t do much for her and would do even less for me.

So it’s morning. Today, as most of my days are these days, is shaping up to be generally long and stressful. I’ll do at least six hours of homework on at least two different projects, attend at least one meeting for which I’m not entirely prepared, go to work for at least four hours, and go to one and only one class. It’s sad that class has become my touchstone of normalcy.

Before all that begins, I’m hoping to do one important and particularly scary thing: leave my résumé (including cover letter and sample materials) with a company I’d really like to work for.

See, two months ago, whenever I mentioned that I was almost done with grad school, people would always ask, “what are you doing for your thesis?” To which I’d say I’m doing a creative component, not a thesis (I prefer the practical experience), and that I didn’t know. Because at that time, I didn’t. Now I know exactly what I’m doing for my creative component. Only problem is, people have largely quit asking me that question. Now when I mention that I’m almost done with school, people always ask, “what are you doing when you graduate?” or “do you have a job lined up?” And the answer to that question, my little pickles, is a resounding “*Shrug* Umm…*Avert Eyes* Well… No. That Is, Not Yet.”

I’ve been putting most all my energy this last month or so into my creative component. If it doesn’t get done, I don’t graduate, and therefore it wins out on far more prioritization battles than I’d care to admit to anyone including myself. The most glaring problem with this is I am somehow supposed to be putting an equal amount of energy into finding a job. I’m already sleeping less than six hours a night. Where do people find the energy? Or even the time? I think I’m starting to remember why I’ve avoided graduating with any finality in the past.

So last night I worked on my creative component from 6:30pm - 10:30pm, then took a bit of laundry over to Dana’s and wrote a cover letter from 11pm - 1am instead of doing what I’d originally planned, which was either work on my creative component report or start working on my class assignment due Thursday. Both of those have been shoved off until tonight. Unfortunately, since I’m busy until 7pm, I probably won’t have time to get a lot done on both. The creative component will again win the priority battle, because I have a meeting with my major professor at noon (immediately after an ISUComm meeting and a few hours prior to a Habitat meeting), and I need to be able to show him that I’ve produced text this week. So far this week I’ve written two and a half pages. Not quite the ten I was hoping for. In my defense, however, the web design portion of my creative component is coming along swimmingly. I should be able to do a usability test by next week, just as I’d hoped. Now my hope is that my major professor will agree.

I recently purchased three new domain names. One will eventually probably replace rootarcana as the home of my blog. The other two are meant to replace my “services” and “portfolio” links. Rootarcana.com will eventually be replaced with robglazebrook.com. That one was a toughy to come up with, believe you me. ;) The other domains are for my new web design business: Corkscrew Labs. Why corkscrew? Good question. That one really ~was~ a toughy. I’ve been bouncing names off of people (primarily Quinn and Eric) for the last two months, and this is the only one that hasn’t gotten shot down. You see, corkscrew is a metaphor for what I believe good web design should be. And if you want a better explanation than that, you can visit the temporary page at corkscrewlabs.com. I’ll redesign the site in mid-April, probably (once my CC is done). Until then, that’ll probably have to suffice.