February 26, 2003

For a while I was doing well with managing my interests and my commitments. For the amount of effort and the life style I want to live, I felt like I was holding a pretty good balance. I turned in one assignment late, but my teacher was generous and didn't take off points, in fact I got a fairly high grade on it. With that though, a lot of outside involved people who know me harassed me about it. It goes to show how you can't break past impressions. To me, I spend most of my time in my room, but I get accused of never being in here when they come to check on me. I wonder when they come in because I really rarely leave the hallway. Then they harass me about needing to go to bed early. I would not be happy living a life in which I went to bed at 11 at night. There's too much I want to do in the day to enjoy going comatose. A lot of people don't understand that, then again, a lot of people don't have the kind of extra-curricular projects that I get involved in (i.e. Team RPGX).

Anyway, I threw off the balance I had going when I started talking to a new person. But I'm cognizant of this and that's half the battle. The other half is re-organizing my time so that I maintain my usual schedule.