6 Books, Budgets, and a Narcoleptic

As you can see by the title, recently, my school life has been revolving around my huge English project, the recent NJ budget cuts, and my insane lack of sleep (as I'm sure many of you can relate). My project basically entails reading a high level world lit novel every week for six weeks, then doing a project on each novel. My six books are: The House on Mango Street, Les Mis, Night, The Good Earth, Dr. Zhivago, and Bridge Over the River Kwai. So far, I'm only on Dr. Z, and I must say that The Good Earth has been my favorite thus far. My project grades have been good, and the best part is I havent been redlined yet! (Redlining means you have to revise it or drop down to a B). However, this all comes with a price: my sleep and my sanity. My life literally revolves around these books now, and sometimes, the stress is just too much. For example, for Les Mis, I locked myself in a basement and read for 4 hours straight. Luckily, I'm in the home stretch with two books to go, so hopefully life will be forgiving. As for the budget crisis, I have literally lost my after school life. No more Sci Club, ESCAPE club, Academic Challenge...but luckily my fav club Key Club was reinstated, so that;s good news. And with my huge loss of clubs, I will likely be joining Debate next year, since I love to debate and do Model UN. At the last board meeting, I spoke on behalf of Sci Club, so hopefully I made somewhat of a difference. We shall see what happens....

All of this has seriously been taking a toll on my health though. I fall asleep so much that it looks like I have narcolepsy or something. Literally, yesterday, my mom dropped some clothes on my bedroom floor, and I fell asleep while trying to pick them up. I somehow need to fix this, because it is severely hurting my math grades, for some odd reason. But I don't want to bore you with my problems, so that's all I'm going to rant about.