Plimoth Plantation battles the need to study

Today we took my parents to Plimoth Plantation, even though I was so tired I literally cried when I drug myself out of bed and wanted to spend the entire day studying/reading/blogging/working on assignments/discussion board posting. I told someone recently that this program has been a gaping bottomless maw swallowing up every free moment, even my dreams, but never satisfied, never full. There is always something else to do, to read, to hurry up and catch up on. It would be great to be balanced about this, but it takes me so long to figure out the components of the assignments in Info Tech, yes I am the annoying stupid "kid" in the class, that I can't find a way to be balanced and finished at the same time. What scares me is that I am not retaining. I read one of the articles for Understanding Information and took notes in the margins. A few days later, I returned to it and had no memory of ever reading it, nor did any of my notes look familiar or help me to remember the content. Darn! So, today I found myself at Plimoth Plantation entertaining my parents on their annual visit to MA instead of studying. While I had a nice time, I found myself distracted and wishing there was a way to sneak in a little time with the book I'm trying to power through for Essay #1.