Read, read, read...

The goal this weekend was to read, read and read.

The original plan was to get through the second session by the end of this weekend, but as it stands now, I'm still not even half way through the first session.

Fail.

To "blame"...

(1)  There's other things that I need to attend to at home.

(2)  My mind is thinking about work.  The thought of having to wrap up this job this week is extremely intimidating.  It's almost stressing me out even though I'm not working on it at the moment.  On top of that, I know there are a couple of other jobs that are waiting for me.  Not impressed.

(3)  It seems that two of my friends are going through some rough times lately.  M was lost someone.  R seems really stressed.  I wish I could help.  I hate seeing the people around me upset.

(4)  Having read so much about hocc lately, my mind keeps going back to other things and issues.  In light of all this, there's so much to think about.

(5)  A few months ago, I placed a hold on a book at the library.  I finally picked it up a few days ago.  This book is highly distracting right now because I'm finding that it's explaining some things that I didn't understand before, and because it hits all the right spots.

This studying thing is harder than I thought.  It really isn't that easy to fit in 15-20 hours of reading each week.  But I've put $1,000+ down on this already.  It's got to get done.