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My energy level during the semester always goes through these cycles of high and low.  It’s a pretty bad cycle - I start out really high, excited to do everything.  Halfway through, I’m listless and exhausted by the grind.  It’s all from a bad habit, of course, and an easily correctable one.  I like signing myself up for too much; it’s easy at the beginning, and everything is fresh. But why back down when all the signs are looking up?

I got a lot of sleep last night.  11 hours of it, actually, and I’m feeling fresh.  I feel good.  Better than I’ve felt in a month.  It’s quite amazing what a little extra rest can do for you, actually.  It’s getting me thinking more positive already - I’m motivated to go and do this reading.  I feel good about doing what I’m doing, when two days ago it was more of a slow kind of despair.

I don’t know, the semester is starting to look up already.  Just two more weeks to finish applications, and life will be… all sorts of wonderful.  I’m writing proposals for the NSF grad fellowship right now, and there are problem sets for my classes to do.  But everything feels manageable, and I’m motivated to do the work.  How nice!  How nice it is.

If writing blog entries is an ungainly activity for me, writing papers for school is an unbelievably more painful exercise altogether.  I hate it.  I don’t know if it’s because I’ve placed a mental block within my brain, or because I don’t care for the types of questions that we’re expected to answer (though I do, for this one), or because I’m no good.  What always ends up happening is that once I sit down for a paper, my head becomes cloudy as the boston sky, and the act of dragging out even individual sentences becomes a horrible chore.  Which is, of course, why I am taking a course in poetry.

In any case, I don’t have the time to finish this entry off proper.  There is a paper due tomorrow, and I have hardly begun writing.  Maybe next time!