I'm flirting with burn-out this semester. I wouldn't have thought I would've gotten even more involved after last fall... but somehow I did. Everything I did last fall has gotten even more time-intensive. All of my comittments seem to think that they can demand even more from me. Learning to say "no" is going to swiftly become a survival skill. One of the really killing parts, though, is that none of my obligations are much interrelated. So I have trouble asking for help from one to the next. The people at Watchdawgs can sympathize with my responsibilities at church, but can never really help. And visa-versa. Add in classes that are (thankfully) not very work intensive yet, but still highly reading intensive and mentally draining..... I can feel the apathy begin to build in me. That isn't right.

Apathy is my natural reaction. Burning-out on all that I have to do, I simply will stop caring. And no one deserves that. I really just need to warn people that I must have a break. Not even a break... I just need a cap on my responsibilities. I can no longer have people assign me new tasks on top of the old ones. With added quantitiy, the qualitiy of all will suffer. And that, too, should never happen. It is my responsibilty to oversee my responsibilities.

My apologies to anyone I have neglected in any way shape or form. I am trying....