Working much harder than I ever have and I think it's safe to say I spread myself too thin. I'm happy I did this, since it's good to push yourself, but I can't wait for my classes to end in a month and to finally get some time off and take on a lighter work load. I basically took the equivalent of around 5 classes since summer classes go at 2.33 times the usual rate and I have 2, and when you add on poker students and other stuff I'm working on (and I need to start volunteering) that's simply a bit too much.

I'm pretty excited about poker theory, it seems like it's becoming a more popular area of focus from what I've seen. That's pretty cool since there are some neat things you can do with it, and I think it will become even more popular over the next few years. I've gotten quite a few PM's and students have recommended me to other students, so I need to raise my rates back to $100/hr for new students, which was my original rate before April 15. Older students will be grandfathered in at a cheaper rate, at least for a while. On the same I'm really busy note I was still able to make a mini-theory quickie regarding 4-bet pots, and the results I got after doing some math were kinda surprising to me. So at least they'll be one little theory video coming out before I go back to completing my donking series, which I do really want to finish but there are other things I need to take care of first and theory series especially I hold to a super high standard because it's pretty hard to argue math.

There's also some non-poker projects I really want to eventually do, one I'm super pumped on especially. Really hard to find the time to work on stuff though, or read non-school related stuff. Really want to get back into reading about different philosophies and religions especially, I find that stuff really interesting and I hate the fact that stuff like that always seems to be the first thing to go when you're busy and trying to cram a bunch of stuff in. I remember reading in economics about how every society always looks back at the past and thinks "LOL, we were so silly back then, good thing we're smart now and know the correct answers to ______" (in this case it was economics), and it's extremely interesting to see how people thought and viewed the world throughout history. I think it also will make me a much better thinker now, so it's not really wasted time. Alas, I'm not doing any of that now but need to get back on it.

Right now I'm trying to focus on "Present society tells you your goal should in life should be to acquire more and more things. Past socities thought your goal in life should be to acquire the qualities you desire." I'm paraphrasing of course, and I can't remember if I heard this and I have no idea if it's true since it's so vague. Yet for some reason this quote really stood out to me and I'm trying really hard to focus on this right now. Glad I'm working really hard because I think I should be doing it now while I'm young, and I'm pretty sure I'd live my life pretty much the same way if I won $50 million tomorrow (at least keep busting my ass and trying to get into medschool and still trying to keep myself working all day), so I think that's a pretty good sign. So far 2011 has been pretty good despite the whole government screwing poker players thing.