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I'm sure you've all heard the phrase "burning the candle at both ends". I seem to be doing this and burning from the middle. I am trying to cram three days worth of work into every single day and keep up with everything. It has been a long and crazy feeling week, and I have at least two more to go.

First is school. I have a huge group project due in a week. By huge, I mean it is more than a quarter of my grade for the term. While doing this project I became the person who keeps everyone in the group informed of the day to day happenings through e-mail. Plus, I've been meeting with various group memebers, in an unbelievably slow school chat room, to talk over our parts and make sure we are all thinking the same way. I've also been trying to work on my own sections with another group member and make sure we are moving foward and will have everything complete by the deadline of Sunday. I've rewriteen my part four times now and we don't even have it ready to get final approval. We are only working on the first half of the project this week, and then after our meeting on Sunday we will begin the second half. Everything is due a week from Sunday, and then I have a final which is another third of my grade following that.

On top of school, everything in my house has gone crazy. My son is running a muck because his dad's work shift was changed again. My daughter is teething, again, so she is needing lots of attention. I've been trying to get the house cleaned up, including both kids rooms, because we have a friend coming into town with his girlfriend tomorrow to stay for a week. If it was just our friend, no big deal. We wouldn't be as worried over everything, but we've never met his girlfriend and he is bringing her to to introduce her to my husband. They've been best friends for years and I don't want to leave a bad impression with his lady. My bigger dog, Keeghan, is on the rampage eating stuff in the house again so I keep finding his messes after I've just cleaned an area. He's eaten a pair of jeans, a shirt, and countless socks in the last few days. Oh yeah, he also ate my daughters stuffed animal so I spent the morning cleaning up that mess.

As I mentioned above, our friend, who was also our best man at the wedding, will be in town all next week. So getting anything accomplished will be near impossible when he and his girlfriend are staying here at the house. I don't know about everyone else, but having people staying with us is always stressful to me. I like company, but normally a few hours is enough. I really am not too fond of people staying with me for more than a night or so, and it makes me feel as if people are invading my personal space. This time is especially worrying for me, because I don't know our friend's girl. I know that from what we've been told we will have nothing in common, but that is about it. I'm hoping to be pleasantly surprised, but I'm really expecting the visit to be disaterous.

I've also been trying to cut some time out of each day for me to keep from going insane, but it is turning into one more thing to try and do. I've been trying to make a little time each night to write on my story, because it is really pressing at me to get it told. I have the story spinning in my head and it keeps progressing regardless of if I can find the time to write it. The result is that I have maybe another four chapters already though out with no time to pen them. The longer they sit, the more I forget where I'm going and the more confused I'm getting with my writing. More and more of the plot keeps coming to me anyway, and at this rate I'll have written the whole book in my head without ever getting it on paper. The last time that happened I ended up with ten chapters of a story just laying around unfinished.

Thanks for reading my rant if you made it this far. At least this has cured me of my headache, so maybe I can get everything ready for my project discussion tonight. Have a good day, and if you get the chance check out my story in the short story section. I can't stress enough how important your feedback is to me, so please be sure to let me know what you think. I may be trying to set up a poll in the thres, if I can, to make it easier to let me know what you think.

~Meg~