May 4

Woke up fairly early for a group meeting with Jane and Manuel. We had to discuss an upcoming major project and a presentation. It's good to work with them because we know each other's work styles now, there's no beating around the bush and because we have the same class schedule, so we know when we're available to meet and how crazy our other assignments are, when they're due, etc..

I left feeling completely stressed about the amount of work I have to get done in the next 10 days before my boyfriend arrives... Essentially, I have to write a 3,000+ word essay on environmental impacts of events, a 1,000+ article critique on a really boring journal article for research methods, write/practice a presentation speech for another class, and finish the bulk of my part on our group assignment analyzing the marketing side of a business event (1,000+ words). ACK.

I got to talk to my boyfriend a couple of times today which was very nice because I didn't expect to talk to him at all today. Although, now I'm completely out of phone minutes for the next week. Oops. Hopefully no one calls me!

12pm class was super boring as usual, but we made fun of Manuel the whole time who expressed a sudden attraction to our very unattractive, boring, monotone professor! Ugh. We were so disgusted. Then I hung around for an hour and went to the 3pm tutorial since I hadn't been in a while and needed a couple pointers on the upcoming group assignment. Headed home, fell asleep for an hour (awesome way to start my productive evening!) and then worked hard on my article critique.

I found another baby spider in my room, this one was black and yellowish with striped legs and it JUMPED! It was so hard to kill because everytime I thought I got it, it jumped away. Finally, with Jillian's help, I was able to flush it down the toilet! Then of course I looked it up. I'm not sure what it is. Could be a Rabid Wolf Spider, a Funnel Weaver (Grass) Spider, or a Banded Huntsman. The Banded Huntsman is the only one that jumps (from my limited web research), so whatever. All are relatively harmless, so it doesn't matter too much. Just sucks that I have to keep killing these mysterious spiders and then worry about what kind they are!