24 hours until my computer science final project is due, another 40 or so hours after which two further final papers (one in history and one a lab report) are due, and 24 hours after that, a final exam in... something. I can't quite recall which class my first exam is for, but I can always look that up.
It seems like a lot of time, when you put it like that.
I won't dilly-dally too much here, but I just needed to get this thought off my chest in the middle of this maelstrom of mismanagement. Forget the "woe is me" shtick. But it is only in times like these when the pressures both real and imagined seem to pile on and on, that I find my own, Zen-like calm. Perhaps it is because when all the chips are down and all your clichés expended, you really are only left with one path to follow. I can procrastinate all I want, but when push comes to shove (these clichés just don't stop, do they?), there's not much left to do except... what needs to get done. It's not hard to see why I've come to be so used to such behavior, when the end result is so single-mindedly simple. Life is perhaps never so easy as when you have only one thing you can do. Explanation is still a long way off from justification, but the truth is a start.
P.S. There is a letter that I can't really say I've been meaning to write, since the idea to write it only just popped into my mind about 30 minutes ago. Yet, it is not unexpected and perhaps overdue. Even though the idea has only existed for the last half-hour, I've been fighting the urge to start writing it on my computer. That is not the way, and would likely defeat the purpose of writing in the first place. A few days more, then I'll have time.
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Currently listening to:
I'll String Along with You, Diana Krall, from the soundtrack to The Cooler
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