Stress

It's that time of the semester when I start to go crazy with stress. It happens every semester, there is always one week (if not more) of hell where everything culminates at the same time. I have 2 papers due on Thursday and a midterm on Tuesday. I'm not very worried about the midterm, but I do need to give it some attention. I've thought about both of the papers, at this point it is mostly just sitting down to write them. The only problem, I can't seem to focus. Despite the fact that I have averaged about 10 hours of sleep every night for the past week, I feel exhausted. Part of me wants to go running and the other half wants to take a nap. Instead, I'm downing coffee to ward of sleep. I want to eat, but at the same time I think that is just a procrastination tactic to keep me away from the table with all of my notes. I'm in one of the positions where I am trying to wrap my head around everything that I have to do, so instead of actually doing it, I think about it. I'm frustrated with myself for always doing this. It's worse that I know exactly what I'm doing, yet keep doing it every time I have a paper due.

Here's hoping this second cup of coffee will give me everything I need to get started/finish.