March 25, 2003
N.B.: This is my second post for today, making up for missing a day a few weeks ago.
I am faced with a cruel dilemma.
I have an insane amount of work to do in virtually no time at all. I have a cabaret show of my songs opening in less than two weeks, and I still have all of the patter and two songs to write and rehearse. Also, I am presenting a paper at a conference at Columbia University on Friday. Don't ask me how this happened; it's a mystery to me. The conference is about writing and social justice, and the session I'm scheduled for is about writing outside the academy (which means writing if you don't have a Ph.D. but people want to read/hear/see what you write, as opposed to writing if you have a Ph.D. but nobody wants to read what you write except other people with Ph.D.s, who don't actually want to read it either but they have to). And of course not a word of that is written.
So my cruel dilemma is: do I go to sleep at a normal hour tonight and fall even further behind, bringing more stress into my life and risking failure at the conference and the cabaret, or do I consume large quantities of chocolate and caffeinated soda, thereby enabling myself to stay up late writing but also ensuring that I get fat?
God, it's so hard to be me.
Posted by Faustus, MD at 08:51 PM
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Comments
1) nicole said (on 03/25/03 at 10:49 PM):
Get some z's & get up early. It's always easier to write in the morning.
2) dd said (on 03/25/03 at 11:45 PM):
See.. I was going to say, fill up on chocolates baby, you can burn off the fat *later*!
3) angelo said (on 03/26/03 at 04:19 AM):
I'd suggest red bull and bump of cocaine. It'd send you in a writing frenzy, and, if you needed further perks, you could show up to your conference wearing all too fabulous and tragic Elizabeth Taylor sunglasses...
Or be admitted in a Betty Ford Clinic.
Both, however, guaranteeing a great blog.
4) Peter said (on 03/26/03 at 11:32 AM):
Go for it. Chocolate counts as negative calories.
No, wait.... I'm thinking of celery, aren't I? Dammit.
5) Jon said (on 03/26/03 at 05:13 PM):
Sleep is overrated... as you probably are finding out right about now! Chocolate and soda HAVE to win!!!
6) theo said (on 03/26/03 at 09:51 PM):
Diet Mountain Dew - You won't get as fat as you could.
7) marquito said (on 03/28/03 at 11:28 PM):
I know this is late and may sound blasé in light of the alluring chocolate/caffeine solution, but I've read that water is the best thing to help keep you awake: it's a no fat solution to your dilemma. Anyway, I hope your paper at Columbia goes well and that the cabaret show is a great success.
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