Report: Week 1

Suppose it would be good to write a kind of weekly report. Maybe. Just came up with the idea and I can't be sure I'll remember to follow up on this next week...

Anyways, the first full week of 2011 has passed by with a heck of a lot of suffering, quite a bit of recuperating and fortunately also some pretty good moments. I've managed to get stuff done - grudgingly - and spent at least as much time by doing absolutely nothing constructive or otherwise relevant to anything else except my mental well-being. Well, one could argue that that is also vital for a final year University student battling with some predictable yet always over-powering educational angst.

Considering the state in which I currently am with the 250-project, it's not going quite as well as I had hoped. It's been a week + 2 days and I've watched just four of the listed films... and only one of those during this week if we want to be completely accurate. As I wrote at the time, first day of the year I watched Lawrence of Arabia and last Sunday it was time for The Deer Hunter and Apocalypse Now. This week all I managed to watch was Grave of the Fireflies. Poor progress indeed.

Of course, this week the most important thing was to get the infamous essay about Vietnam war films done and delivered. Wasn't an easy task as you might have noticed... But at last I was done with it and the rest of the week has been dedicated to getting my mind and body to once again cooperate with me without too much rebelling. However, a regular sleeping rhythm is unsurprisingly still pretty much an unfamiliar concept to me.

But what ever the case with my sleeping patterns, tomorrow I've got to get back to work. I still have one assignment to do before I'm done with Semester 1 - and then there's journalistic work to do and an independent study to focus on, but we can get on with those when the time comes... Besides, after I've gotten the journalism assignment done, I think I'd like to take one day off of working, concentrate on the project and actually see some progress by adding a few more titles to the list of films watched.

I could even gather strength by watching a whole trilogy next week. A bit of space opera might do wonders... We'll see. :D