My house is so crowded lately! My daughter has moved back between graduating from college and getting married. My neice has moved back in after losing her job and home; she brought two cats, two turtles and a dog with her. Her son is thankfully staying with his dad and step-mom right now, but she has him every other weekend and this is his weekend. I've got so much studying to do and a thesis topic to research and I can't concentrate with all these people and animals underfoot.
My daughter keeps wanting me to do things with her when she's not working, which I mostly enjoy, but I'm not getting much time for my classwork. She also doesn't want my neice to get too comfortable -- she thinks her cousin takes gross advantage of my willingness to help out -- so she's coming home every night instead of staying with her boyfriend so her cousin will have to camp out in the livingroom rather than in her bedroom. (She's told me this is what she's doing, and why.) The consequence, however, is that my neice's belongings are strewn across the livingroom instead of my daughter's bedroom and I'm left with no place to effectively study.
I can't study in my own bedroom because I need a desk and bright reading light and I can hear their voices no matter where they are in the house. I can't study in the livingroom or kitchen because my neice and her son (when he's there) are in both places all the time and I hate the feeling that someone is looking over my shoulder or could come and interrupt me at any moment. I had to vacate my own house tonight and come to the university library just to get the peace I need to focus and study. I have an office in my department, but I share it with two other students and one of them is a talker who doesn't seem to get the point when I tell her I'm studying, so I have trouble studying there, too.
Like I said in the header, I'm just venting. I'll keep coming to the library to study, it's just getting very nerve-wracking around the house. I'll be glad when my neice finds a job, moves back out and takes her animals with her.
01 Feb 2010, 12:08 am
