Looking back , looking forward

So today I fell asleep at the keyboard while studying. Then I woke up and chugged some red bull and ate  a huge bag of skittles to keep myself awake. Just so you know that if this post goes a little south you have a reason to fall back on. Plus this is the second time iv'e written this blog since the last time the computer frozen when I hit the "post" button. sigh
I'm impressed with the studying thing frankly. When I was younger I was indifferent at best to studying and at worst I actively avoided it. Asserting my independence at an age when you life is not your own so any decision you make yourself is a step forward?? perhaps. More likely is because I was an obstinate little shit. You see I didn't need to study, I was going to be a famous comedian and so didn't need to know math. I bet no one ever asked Jim carry what the capital of Spain was. I suffered under this delusion until the age of twenty when I left acting college and had to get a job. I then spent the next year washing dishes and the next ten doing every job you could think of including but not limited to, nurse, shelf stacker, chef, postman,  cold call agent, barman and so on. Now I find myself back in education and this time I'm more mature and can handle it.Hopefully.
I am, like just about everyone else I'm sure, the kind of person who looks at the psst as well as  the future quite allot. Too that end I decided to get organised and find out all the dates for exams and essays due so that i would be less stressed out because Id know what was coming.
That....did not happen.
Now I'm freaking out because there seems so much to do! You can never win.
To that end Im going to quote from a film ( kung fu panda, shhhhhh) that helps me sometimes when I'm feeling a little overwhelmed
"The past Is History. The future is a mystery. And today is a gift. That is why they call it the present"
Words to live by, even though the come from an animated sea turtle.
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If I said the quote was from Shakespeare you wouldn't be smirking at me right now, sheesh