associated in random thought

here's the thing.

12:33 am. wide awake. my 4:30 am to 11:30 am sleeping schedule is not conducive to the industrious 48 hours i need to have starting tomorrow.

you see, it is the end of the semester. oh, it is, you ask?

yes, it is. (i'd forgotten too.)

so. i am far away from the hustle and bustle of last minute paper-writing happening all over the academic world at this very minute. because i'm in east belfast with the icecream truck--which now plays various christmas carols--and howling dogs.

the world is quiet now.
except for the dying battery relentless beep of the smoke detector downstairs. that's been going on, intermittently, for the past two days. i am developing violent thoughts toward it.

and i can't fall asleep.

i cannot tell you all i need to accomplish over the next two days, for fear that my professors will see how horrible a student i am, and will shame me for the new levels of procrastination to which i've stooped.

(i'm too embarrassed to admit it to myself, really.)

i can't get this radiohead lyric out of my head: you do it to yourself, you do, and that's why it really hurts.

however, the good, redemptive news: i finished a final exam nearly twenty-four hours before it was due.

i'll check in throughout the next 48 hours with reports of my waning sanity.
should make for some exciting reading.

stay tuned. tell a friend. send money.

and now, to sleep. at 12:43. if counting sheep does not work, i will begin to pray. prayers from bed always result in instant sleep.

Posted by bananie at December 8, 2002 12:00 AM | TrackBack