Sooo I recently took (and passed, btw) my American Lit CLEP. That's another 6 credits, bringing it into to a total of 84 credits! Which means I have 36 more to go. Which means I have 11 more courses to go 'til I'm done with my BA degree.
Soo YAY!!!
Anyways. I'm that weird homeschooled kid whose mom got her math books for the next school year about a month into summer break, and couldn't handle it so in the middle of summer break, I was doing my math for next year.
Yes. Call me crazy. Get it out of your system. We good now? Good.
So, since I'm done with this CLEP, the next course I'm taking (and this one's a legit course, with assignments and a time limit and exams and everything) doesn't let me start until tomorrow after 5pm. Since it's a Wednesday, we have to leave slightly after 5pm to pick up my dad to get to church on time.
So I basically have a full day to do nothing. And I'm antsy to start now because I feel like I'm finally on a roll haha. So I might end up breaking out the next 6-credit CLEP book I have and reading it just so I feel like I'm getting more work done.
I'm a bit of a lazy over-achiever. I really, really want to succeed, to do something great, to leave my mark on the world, but then again I really want to stay at home and sleep and watch anime and K-dramas and hang out with friends. So once I build momentum, I need to keep going or else it'll burn out pretty quickly.
After sitting and doing nothing for a while, I start to feel kind of useless, so I gotta get up and do something. I feel like I'm finally getting somewhere. The end's in sight. So what do I do when there's a period of waiting between getting done with one thing and moving on to something else? 'Cause trust me, if you've never experienced it before, it's a kind of frustrating place to be in.
We all literally encounter these kinds of 'spaces' at multiple times in our lives, it's part of the transitioning and change that comes along with life. God puts us in these situations sometimes because we need a break, sometimes because we need to learn to be content in those times, and sometimes because we need to prepare and gear up for the next thing that we're about to do. It's like in a video game, you always grab the extra ammo, health pack, and save point right after you've killed one boss, and right before you're gonna tackle the next boss. If you don't, you lose your progress and have to repeat the whole thing again.
I'm probably going to take a nap, drink some coffee, read some books, make some action steps for the next few weeks, prep for the next few courses and get ready to kill it come tomorrow night after church. I am ready to kick it into beast mode. Riiiiight after I get some sleep, you know? :D
And you. You've accomplished some awesome stuff too. Whether you're about to, are already in, or are just cooling off your beast mode, think about how to make the most of that 'transitional' time where you got nothing going on. If you need a nap, go take that nap. If you need to prepare for the next thing, go prep. And, hey, if you're prepped and ready to tackle the beast, go tackle it! I believe in you. It's gonna be crazy, it's gonna be hard, but hey, you'll go forth and conquer. Keep being awesome, man. :)
God bless you guys! Love ya! :) <3
--Sonya :)
P.S. Sorry if this post was all over the place. The coffee started wearing off somewhere in the middle of writing all this, and I'm slowly sliding down into the depths of that time of night where the goofy comes out. Sooo yeah. Haha. Oyasumi, min'na-san! Ja ne. :)
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