The End of Hell Month

February 9th, 2007 | View Comments

You may have noticed that the daily productivity tally has gone untouched all week. Oops. Had I been updating it, it would have said:

The usual classes and meetings
Studying until I drop

One of the classes I’m taking right now has a reputation for being the most brutal, soul-sucking class in the program. It’s living up to the reputation. Last night, the night before our midterm this morning, my classmates’ away messages were a tortured chorus of neuroscience terms and predicted failure.

I actually had back-to-back exams this week, on the heels of pulling way too many 10-14 hour days trying to get a conference paper ready for submission, on the heels of cramming a lot of work in right before grad student evaluations, on the heels of a lot of required coursework, intermingled with some other things that majorly disrupted my work flow (like stress-induced insomnia), and…I tired. Brain fried. Ogg bash head with rock.

I’ve now hit a lull in the semester, which means I will actually have time to do things like laundry. And spend time with people instead of computers and textbooks.