Well howdy to you too, Kyle. Still a bit confused as to why you even notice me, but thanks anyways. However, I’d like to pose a question. Do you know my name? Yeah, didn’t think so. But you hold the door for me and smile and stuff so I suppose I’ll forgive you. Not like my name matters, really, as long as you aren’t rude.
I almost forgot to blog today. Sorry. It’s been a draining week. I have a lot of stuff to do and not enough sleep to do it well. Sigh. But guess what? I advanced past the first round of elimination at my first ever debate tournament! Unfortunately, we had to leave before I was told this information because we had an early flight. But still. I’ve never debated in that event before, and I actually didn’t suck completely. I think this bodes well.
Well, I at first thought it boded well. And then I remembered that I have to now write two speeches, memorize them, and then cut a prose selection and memorize (mostly) that. And then I remembered that I’m also a full time college student who got a D and a C+ on her first two college tests, respectively. And then I kinda started freaking out.
Because in isolation, everything I’m doing isn’t that big of a deal. Let’s organize my life into layers.
Layer 1: Blogging three times a week (I count Eugenia as blogging), posting a video twice a week.
Layer 2: Going to college/doing homework
Layer 3: Writing and editing novels
Layer 4: Speech and Debate
Layer 5: Social life, radio show (script writing especially), and work study
On their own, each of these layers would be easy but time consuming. Together, though, they cause massive amounts of stress. I’ve almost completely eliminated layer 3, which sucks, because that’s what I want to be doing with my life, and I think I’m going to start having to cut down on the video portion of layer 1 because I just don’t have the time to conceptualize/film/edit two videos a week on time.*
Ideally, my life would consist of three layers:
Layer 1: Writing and editing novels
Layer 2: Blogging and vlogging on a semi-regular basis
Layer 3: Travelling
The best part about those layers? They don’t often require overlapping and massive amounts of stress. They can be done separately and will often not have the same deadlines.
So basically I’m kinda stressed out at the moment and trying to balance things better. We’ll see how that works. Oh, and in the two hour process of writing this blog, I found random footage to make two more videos, one TAC and one BOW**. Better do something fun before next Tuesday, or we’ll have a week without visual aids.
*Since Craig doesn’t make TAC videos as consistently as I do, I never know what to do those videos about. I actually just texted him for a challenge because one is due out tomorrow and I have absolutely nothing. Oops.
**If those initialisms don’t mean anything to you, you’re probably new. TAC is “TheAdamCastles”, a collab channel I started with my friend Craig to keep in touch during college. BOW is just “Bri’s Own World”, which is my website domain as well as my youtube channel, my twitter feed, and my daily booth profile.
