Monday, October 01, 2007

Sigh.....

I have a blank Word Document in front of me. In fact it has been there for the better part of the day.

Whenever anyone calls, I say, "Uhh.. I'm studying.. can I get back to you later? I'll call you when I take a break."

Said call disturbs my thought process (maybe the thoughts were just about to be spilled on the blank Word Doc, you know) and I decide to download a few songs. I download Euphoria's entire album. 9 songs. Then chiding myself about not studying, I turn to the blank Word Doc. I then download Shaan's entire collection of songs. 21 songs.

Dhum pings me online and wonders if I am studying that hard. I say "Ofcourse, oh and could you forward the song from Dor to me? Ahh Thanks.."

Back to studying then. I think about the reflection paper I am supposed to submit on Wednesday, and the article I am supposed to submit on Tuesday, and the report I am supposed to submit on Monday - TOMORROW!!

Brain refuses to get stimulated, motivated, inspired. I turn to the 600 page reading I have to do for next Monday. Brain loses all grasp on stimulation, motivation, inspiration and spirals down to lala land. Sleep. ZZZZ. Forty Winks. But in my case, a little more often.

Everytime I start my readings, one page = 30 minutes of deep sleep. So deep that I even have dreams. I tried reading while I was walking, I stood for 30 minutes sleeping. I tried reading while I was studying with friends, I camouflaged my sleep. I tried reading while I was sitting on the hard, rough, poky carpet, I slept on my reading. Sigh. And I finally, desperately, tried reading while I was sleeping. Some inverse logic might be at action, I though. Needless to say, I slept. Sleeping.

"How are you with deadlines??"
"Oh, deadlines are sacred to me. Back home, we used to say, 'you gotta meet a deadline, even if you are dead!!"

This is what I said in my interview. And I think this is why I got my job.

Then WHY THE HELL IS MY BRAIN NOT FUNCTIONING ENOUGH TO REALIZE THAT IT IS THIS JOB THAT IS AT STAKE NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sigh. The Word Document is still blank...

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Lol
.... lol!!!

LOL!!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

Hmmm...It is October 3rd today! You must be unemployed by now!

~The Dream Catcher~ said...

'nonnymous sir- at the risk of sounding repetitive- sigh...

Brad- do you really want to know what happened??

Not the girl next door said...

:) you are an exception. are you in usa? where are you working?

~The Dream Catcher~ said...

Jinal- yea.. in the us of a.. and i just wrote a post on the two places I am working at and then removed it.. I thought maybe I should post it sometime later..
Anyway I write stores and articles for the yearbook of my University..

Also, I like being an exception.. but tell me why again??

Not the girl next door said...

that was in response to your comment on my blog- -abt college kids blogging. we are exceptions/ not everyone is doing this/ thinking like this.

are you on the east coast too? email me, i'm in adv/mktg as well.
jinals28 at gmail dot com