An academic's life just ain't for me.
With all the debates going on about academics not living the real life, I come to this conclusion. I don't want to be an academic. Where else do I get to be sick for five days, completely forget about a project's proposal being due, have my classmate message me just as I'm about to fall asleep at the respectable time of midnight (for a sick person) and then spend the next two hours frantically pounding away at a keyboard to BS through 5 pages of single spaced proposal that is part of a larger evil of BS that will be thrown together and presented wrapped in gold and decorated with red ribbon. Because while it's wrapped in gold and adorned with ribbon, we know its still shit, perhaps our instructor will not.
I also have yet to understand why at one time or another during the past four years everyone has been able to pass off at least one project due to personal problems and not get called on for it, while every “issue” I have had to deal with has been met with “Well you're still a part of our group so we still need your input.” It's disturbing that I am more than willing to do the work of another so they won't get a failing grade which may adversely affect the outcome of the year, while no one ever seems willing to offer me the same courtesy.
Oh, I also went to the gym today, (well, yesterday by now) which went alright but I was definitely feeling sick the whole time, unable to breathe. Then I proceeded to clean my room of the dust kangaroos that had taken residence. While I am adamant that it's aided in my feeling slightly better (after all, wouldn't anyone feel better without two pounds of dust on the floor getting into the air?) it hasn't completely cured me, neither has over-medicating myself with cough syrup that doesn't cure any of my current symptoms.
Why am I still typing? Force of habit after the past two hours of attempting to write a decently coherent 33% of a project analysis proposal I suppose.
I also need to simplify my personal website, which is currently a mess due to my confusing, overly pretentious reasoning to divide topics based on personality traits that don't particularly exist.
