growing my jasmine with death
I'm currently sitting for my MA competency exams, and I have two days left. So far I've put my body and mind through hell--not eating, not sleeping, cracked out and obsessing over every word of every sentence. I guess I tend to do this when I write papers but I've never undertaken anything of this magnitude. When I'm done with this thing I'm going to sit down and think long and hard about why my academic work habits are accompanied by bouts of ritualistic masochism. Surely this cannot work in the long run.