Jared Banta

So I’m finally over the crest of my week.  No class til Monday, and on Monday I don’t have to work.  So I feel a lot less like the minutes are whizzing past me and nothing is getting done as quickly as it should.

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Ugh, everything feels so rushed these days.  I work every day this week; I’ve been trying to schedule a student to tutor all while not falling horribly behind in class and staying on top of grad school stuff.  So far my head still rests above the water line, but that’s based merely on a day-to-day assessment.

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Okay, not much time today which seems to be the story of my life lately but whatevs.

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I had a nice weekend of watching sports and catching spiders. I started to wonder if maybe the spiders are a metaphor for my life. Then I realized that anything can be a metaphor for anything if you think about it long enough.

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The anxieties have not subsided to the extent I had hoped.  I continue to feel overwhelmed, juggling school and work and the fact that I have no fallback plan.   But I’m trying not to dwell.  If I know myself at all, these anxious feelings will most likely persist well after all of my applications have been turned in.  So, on with the show.

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So the big news in Boulder the last week has been the Fourmile Canyon Fire, which has become the most destructive in the history of the State of Colorado from the standpoint of homes lost, almost 170. The homes lie up in the mountains to the west of town, and for a time, due to high winds, there was some danger that the fire would spread into town, although it sounds like they have it under control at this point.

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