Yep, that's right

It's 3 a.m. and I'm still up. I've been working on a personal statement and proposal for a summer workshop since about 10 p.m. (with breaks, of course). It's so hard for me to think of my work in terms of a project when my natural tendency is to write the poems and see how they fit together later. I guess this is a good exercise for me. And I'm almost done, but I'm at that point where I'm not thinking straight but I'm too hopped up on soda to go to sleep right now. Hence the middle of the night blog post.

I've been doing terrible on NAPOWRIMO, and I think I'm throwing in the towel. I'm stressed out about enough other things that I don't need to add the stress of forcing myself to be creative when I'm not feeling it. I'm just going to focus on being a good academic for the rest of the semester and focus on poems over the summer. It's a sacrifice I'm willing to make because my term papers for this semester are going to be fun to write.

I guess I should try to get some sleep. I wonder if I will still wake up at 7:30 when I'm up this late.