The pros and cons of senioritis

It's never good when you feel yourself losing your drive to write, especially when it's the one thing you're good at. To say nothing of the fact that it's what you're banking on to keep a roof over your head from now until the day you die.

The "big things" I had planned was a package I was going to shoot and edit from my trip to Ft. Lauderdale a few weeks back.

It never really got off the ground, but I did manage to get a column out of the experience.

It's just past 1 a.m. on Tuesday, two days before spring break starts, so I'm blaming my lack of drive on that. It seems like a good place to start laying blame.

I need to pull straight Cs in all my classes to graduate, as I've exhausted my allotment of Ds in my major. I have found that I've got a 75% average in ethics and law, which I suppose means that I can be counted on to do the right thing three-quarters of the time.

In other news, I got published again in the Record this Sunday. Go me!

Now if only I could get paid. I've got $4 to my name; I'm still waiting on a check I invoiced Drift for two weeks ago, and if I have to wait for my Harvest of Hope article money to come in the mail, I will surely starve.

There's other stuff on my mind: Dissatisfaction at work (as I write this, I'm sitting in the office, Craigslist open in another tab), figuring out where I stand with a couple of my other classes that I'm nervous about my grades in, etc.

I guess I just need a break for a few days. If I can manage to get the Record to cut me a check this afternoon, it'd be great: I might be able to fulfill my dream of getting so drunk on St. Patrick's Day that I'll be the first person to vomit off the side of the newly-refurbished Bridge of Lions.

You have to aim high, is what I'm saying. Everybody needs something to strive for.

At this point, however, I'd settle for having something to put in my stomach. Or, at the very least, a Coke and a cigarette. You wouldn't think it so much to ask for, but I bought a 2 liter bottle of Coke today and it was flat when I opened it, so I guess I might just be asking too much from the universe.