The girl with more ideas than time

So...I was away in the land of essays and headcolds and visitors for a while there. I'm super-glad the first two are done with and I can actually enjoy LJ's friend's visit rather than feeling like my head is about to explode and shower all and sundry with a mucus/Uncle Tom's Cabin mixture. I'm pretty resigned to getting not so great grades on the essays. I was rushed, I didn't think things through in the way I like to, I really don't feel like I established a feminist stance on either paper but especially not the second. For a few days I thought I was going crazy and had left my brain on the bus or in the Topshop changing room. Then I got a scratchy throat and I realized that I wasn't getting stupid, I was just getting sick. Funny how snot interferes with brain activity.
Anyway...I say that I'm struggling with a multitude of ideas because I am. This is a recurring problem but particularly annoying at the moment because I feel pretty strongly that these are good ideas and I want to put them all into action right now! LJ has wisely cautioned me against getting too overloaded what with the big aul' dissertation staring at me and all. He's right. Much as I hate to, I'm shelving a lot of the action until after September when I can get down to it. Having said that...one of the things I'm hoping to do next year is to do some kind of sponsored event. Possibly a running kind of sponsored event. I'm not going to say the 'M' word but it has emerged as a possibility. Anyhoo, whatever extent I push myself to it's going to be a push because I am one verrrrrrrrrry unfit lady. So...perhaps it's time to get in training. Which is something I can do now.
As for the others. I'm keeping them under my hat for now.
Oh and I am going to stop with the small talk and start with the intelligent stuff soon. Honest.