This week has been pretty stressful.  Work has been long and tiring, I clocked in over 23 hours this week at my main job.  I have also picked up another part time job that I work once a week. Classes have been getting crazy with Spring Break coming up and a large amount of midterms coming up this next week.  I have a speech due, two papers, and three midterms this next week.  On top of all of this my mother called me at five thirty in the morning on Friday to tell me that we might be putting my dog down.  My puppy is a little over 11 years old.  I received him for my birthday one year and he has been my baby ever since. Alex is a spoiled puppy.  He is also very dimwitted. When we first got him as a little baby puppy he had this problem where he would run into walls and then sit in front of the wall he had just run into and stare off into space. My parents found this hilarious and said that I picked the dumbest dog in the litter, but he quickly found a way into all of our hearts.  He is such a little sweetie.  For the first 7 years of his life he slept every single night at the bottom of my bed. He is a part of my family. Right now he is in a lot of pain because of a degenerative spinal cord disease. He had surgery less then three months ago that was supposed to cure him.  This past week he has started to show signs of the disease coming back again.  He can hardly walk; cannot go up and down stairs, and yelps if people get to close to him.  My parents called the vet and she said she wanted to kennel him for the next week while my parents are in Mexico for their 20-year wedding anniversary. The vet thinks she can save him.  My parents told her that if he gets worse and needs to be put down, don't let him suffer just go ahead and let him go.  I told my mom to give the vets my cell phone number and to have them call me before they do anything because I want to go home and say goodbye.  I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I did not say goodbye to him, if I just let him be put down without someone in his family to be with him.  I am sure some people would think this is stupid; that he is just a dog but that just is not true.  He is a part of my family and this is really difficult for me right now. On top of everything happening this past week my insomnia has continued, I have even tried Nyquil, but I still have not been able to sleep. I am pretty sure I am stressed out but I am hoping after this week my life will calm down a bit.  I am very ready for Spring Break. I am not going anywhere, in fact I am staying in town and I am working all week but I need a break from school. We have a really interesting assignment in English due Friday.  This assignment is really similar to the Dr. Strangelove assignment only the paper is longer and we get to choose what movie we want to watch, we get to pick out of the top 100 movies from the Film Institute.  I really want to do my paper on Schindler's List. I know that I have already seen this movie and a lot of people think we should watch a different movie that we have not seen before but I feel that this movie is such an important movie with a very important message that someone should do their report over the movie and I plan to be that person. I am going to be renting the movie tonight to watch for the first time and take notes over and then I will watch the movie a few more times before I start on my paper.  I am really glad we go this assignment because by doing this assignment we are forced to see more then what we normally see in a movie.  We are forced to look deeper into the meanings of what we may have seen three or four times before but we have never really seen before. I think that of all the assignments I have to deal with this week I am looking forward to my English assignment the most.  The weekend is beautiful and I think I will be doing most of my studying outside in the lovely sunshine.

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