"there, there, that wasn't so bad!" "yes, yes, it was so bad. it was worse."

Today is a very frustrating day. I have an important paper to write on some aspect of 20th century French litterature and, even though I'm happy with the topic I've chosen, I'm having trouble actually accomplishing the task set before me.

As is sometimes my habit when I have a large academic task to accomplish, I let myself sleep until 10:15 this morning in hope that I would feel well rested and ready to set to work. Au contraire. I rose feeling groggy. I didn't shower and I didn't eat before pulling my computer onto my lap and opening the Microsoft Word document that held the precious few pages I'd already put down. But a slow Internet connection slowed my work because I still need new sources for my topic and because I depend on WordReference.com to translate when necessary.

Then, the program went on the fritz, frequently quitting "unexpectedly" and losing the very minuscule amount of writing that I had been able to accomplish.

I gave up. I was exhausted. It was already after 2 p.m.!

After I couldn't work myself up to doing anything else productive, I sat down once again in front of my computer screen. And I'm still here, at 4:48 p.m. Where has my day gone?

I feel sick in a tired/stressed way. I know that the best way to recover from a long and demanding week is probably to go for a good run, take a hot shower, relax for a little while and then try to write a couple pages so that I can feel accomplished, but I honestly just want to sleep for days.

Maybe instead I'll just listen to You Look Nice Today.