For the past several months, I've been experiencing some chronic fatigue. I'm sure it's a result of working too hard in school for the past several years- all the nonstop homework, working out, playing sports, and pulling all-nighters. Fatigue sucks. It blows. Being so tired has made it hard to keep my grades up, and I was doing wonderfully until one particular group project came up, and I hate working in groups.

In my intro digital video course, my group had to make a video for our final project. The group consisted of a guy who had hardly been seen all semester (won't mention his name), a guy who is skilled (Chris), but doesn't have a great work ethic, and me, extremely tired and busy. This was a huge project, so huge that it put me behind in all my other classes, in which I was also working on final exams & final projects, projects such as a website, a treatment for a reality show, an animatic cartoon, and a video game.

Nearly all of the recording for the video was done by just Chris & me. On the day this video was due, there was still a lot of editing to be done. I was at home working on my animatic, which was already nearly a week late, and the guy from whom we hardly ever heard was nowhere to be found, there was on;y one of us on campus putting the final product together. He was doing nicely by himself, but after he got done, it took hours to render, and even though he was done editing on time, it wasn't on a disc until late in the class and the instructor wouldn't accept it. So now I'm looking at something like a D- for that course.

As a result of taking extra time to work on that video project, I ended up not being able to turn in my animatic or video game, and I missed a final exam, all of which were in the same class, in which I would have had an A+, but instead, I just found out, got a D.

The reality show treatment was also a group project, and my part got done at the last minute. The website was done after the last minute, but I did well with it and got 93 or 95%. But now, I'll probably be losing the opportunity to graduate with honors, and at least one scholarship, but I should be able to apply for more. After all this mes, I'm trying to enjoy my summer as much as possible and get some rest. My gallery & scrapbook should see more additions as well.