circular thinking

So here was me yesterday: "Sigh. Another late night. Only four hours of sleep. I hate papers. Lots of sleep deprivation. Much dead brain to pass around circle. Plenty for everyone. No need to rush." This meant no ability to post (again). Oh well.

So what I had in mind to post yesterday, that is, before I realized I was mentally incapable, was something of the sort: I had a paper due yesterday for my World Religions class. Not too terribly long of a paper, being only 4-5 pages long. The only problem was that I hadn't really looked at the paper topic since I had gotten it about two weeks earlier. No worries, right? Well, not if I had gotten home at a decent time.

Wednesday evenings usually amount to something on the order of "do lots of stuff" and "get nothing done." That is to say, I do millions of extracurriculars and do none of my stuff, personal or academic. Only problem was, I had to do a paper. So after class, I tutored a girl in geometry, wolfed down a dinner in 4 minutes, rushed to church, practiced for Sunday worship, sang in choir, then got home. At about 10. Which meant I had to figure out what I had to write on before I could even get started.

It was a paper taking two religions (I chose Mahayana Buddhism and Confucianism) and comparing their ideal humans (the bodhisattva and the gentleman, respectively). Interesting comparison in some ways; only problem was that it wasn't nearly as exciting as it might have been a week earlier. Or even a day earlier.

I managed to write a five-page paper before hitting the sack, though I can't speak to the coherence of it. Bedtime was 2:30am, which, all things considered, really wasn't too bad. It's just that I was getting up four hours later. That on top of lots of late nights thanks to midterms adds up to a pretty dead me. Have to say goodbye to those brain cells, anyway.