See you holidays, it's been swell but the swelling's gone down.

After what has felt like a very non productive eternity I am going back to uni as of next Monday. This means that instead of dragging myself out of bed to face a day filled with nothing (much like this http://nedroid.com/2011/02/morning-motivation/)I will now be running out the door in order to get to morning classes. And then frantically trying to squish study into as many moments a day as I can, getting burned out and watching tv instead... Well hopefully that last bit doesn't happen so much this semester.

The bare bones of my timetable looks a little something like this (sorry for the rubbish table, I don't know html):

	Mon	Tues	Wed	Thurs	Fri	Sat	Sun
7
8
9		Class	Class	Class
10	Class
11
12		Class
1	Class
2				Class
3
4		Class	Class
5
6
7

I read somewhere that you should do about 2 hours study for each contact hour, but a) that would make for a 66 hour week b) last year I ended up needing significantly less study than this for the science units. So for the time being I'm blocking in 2 hours per contact hour for law subjects and 2 hours per subject per week for science - a neat 24 hours study time. Putting those in as well as travel time makes my timetable look like this:

	Mon	Tues	Wed	Thurs	Fri	Sat	Sun
7
8		Travel	Travel	Travel
9	Travel	Class	Class	Class	Study	Study
10	Class	Study
11			Study	Study
12		Class
1	Class
2			Study	Class	Study
3							Study
4		Class	Class
5	Travel
6	Study	Travel	Travel	Travel
7
8

Honestly, this looks pretty intense to a slacker like me. It does have room for the gym, socialising and cooking which will hopefully preserve my health (especially mental health - gosh) but I'm not going to block them in yet because I want to see how this works and what times for the gym are going to be best for other people so I can have gym buddies sometimes.

I'm going to try and keep to my sleeping schedule. I haven't kept to it strictly yet (which will sure make next week a shock to the system) but my hours are much more regular than before.

Lastly in other time news, I have finally found time to tick something off my eternal to do list. I have never donated blood. After two false starts where I was too sick on the date to donate, I am all booked in for this Sunday. I am feeling fighting fit and looking forward to it. Still on my list is to donate bone marrow. That is a much scarier prospect - ouch - and not as quick set up so it will take a while. But I think it's really important.

Have any of you donated blood, marrow or anything else? What were your experiences like?