Spring Day 24

 Might as well call it summer at this point. I'm wearing shorts and am sunburned. Alas.

Anyway, by this point I've been up for like 22 hours. The only sleep I've had today is like 2 <5 minute cat naps. I'm in the state where I'm so tired I'm not even tired anymore. I've drunk like 3 liters of water today staying awake. But I'll go to bed soon I swear.

Got up at 1 and started on my lit review. Which mostly meant collecting articles, I actually did very little writing (which I'm ashamed of, my lit review sucks. I'll fix it up this weekend). Around 6, when the sun was rising and I could hear the birds I realized I might as well go to the office and finish working there. So I did that. Streets were surprisingly busy at 6:30. So was the office for that matter. 

Sent in my lit review at 9:28 with a third of my references missing. But who cares, I sure don't at this point. This class is killing me and I need to just reorient myself on my own schedule for a couple weeks first. Managed to stay up through the whole class, probably because I was hyped on caffeine, Pretty tired by lunch though (had been up for 11 hours by that point) and ended up falling asleep on the lounge couch for a couple minutes around 1:30. Answered some student emails, finished up some grading I accidentally skipped and then went to office hours. No one came. Went up stairs afterwards. Should've graded but was too tired to think so I just scrolled through reddit. Took another cat nap (accidentally of course) around 5:30. That's probably why I'm still awake. Went to institute. Was pretty good. Sky was real pretty. Got home, ate dinner and I'm actually not sure what I've done for the last hour before starting this. Not sleeping sucks. 

Thinking about Šyþed Pyklez's next album and how I want to organize it (since I plan on releasing Fishing for Birds in June. Counting Sheeple's deadline is in just over a month and that just leaves Fishing for Birds). If Dead Ponies in the Rain opened (well, was #2) its album and Fishing for Birds will close out its eponymous album, then Doctrines of Annihilation should be in the middle. Which fits thematically since the first half of the album is supposed to be about a breakdown and the second half the recovery. Settlers and Pioneers is a shythe diss track to represent the band at its high point then it's followed by a song about monotony and a song about recurrent depression before landing at Doctrines of Annihilation which ultimately is about the loneliness of life and the curse of eternity but also coming to accept that, embrace it. Of course, I only have 7 songs plotted so far, so I might add two more, one on each side. You'll hear lots more about it as I work more on it.

Mood: feeling good considering the circumstances. As I was telling people at institute, pretty sure I'm in the delirium stage of sleep deprivation. It's starting to hit me again though so I guess I'll be going to bed.