Countdowns

9 minutes until I am leaving to go do my law reading.

I was thinking today about countdowns. I love them. I love being able to plan ahead to something. 80 days until graduation (hooding). 22 days until Greenville College Softball gets to play some spring ball in Texas. 9 days until I leave for Boston. And now 7 minutes until I am leaving my apartment.

The problem with countdowns is that it makes me feel like there is always pressure on me to get a certain amount of things done prior to the deadline - whatever that deadline is. Right now, I have three days until my parents arrive in Texas. I am psyched about their upcoming arrival, but as I think about how I'm going to get all my work done, the pressure increases.

Then I think about how I have 9 days until I should have interviews scheduled at NASPA (right now I only have one - which is great, but do I want more? I don't know - I only have 9 days). And I only have about 14 days until I leave from Boston for LA (hopefully) and meet the people at UCLA. And I probably only have about 20 days until I have to make a decision about my future.

Yikes.

Well for now, I like to think that have a certain (undefined) number of days until I get to Heaven, and I get to be there forever. In hindsight, most of these countdowns will look pretty insignificant.

I'll try to remember that next week in my statistics midterm....