Thursday and another long week

I've lost all sense of time and reality. What day is it? What time is it?
It's already Thursday and that means that I have spent every day for the last 2 weeks working continuously on studio (and at times my HTS paper). 12 hours a day in studio is devastating, even if you were going to be working that long anyways.

Around finals time, strange feelings of disconnect from reality set in. It is freeing, because suddenly you are both deep inside and far outside yourself with a detached, but incredibly lucid, vision of what is happening around you. Money, time, food, sleep.. all the things we find necessary for daily life lessen in importance. What matters is: (1) the next item on the To Do list; (2) how much caffeine you need at that moment.
Actions that pass are in sharp focus, but immediately blur into hindsight, forgotten details of "the past" that jump days and hours. A conversation from 3 hours ago is as distant as lunch 3 days ago.
In moments of sleep-deprived delusion mingled with the giddiness induced by paint fumes and redbull, architecture students find themselves legitimately contemplating all of the things normally condemned: Smoking, drinking, meds that make you focus, that very dodgy looking sandwich that has been sitting out all day...

While other students study a night or two in preparation for exams, we give our bodies, minds, and souls to our work for 2, 3, 4 weeks. Dulled eyesight, lost fingertips, nerve-damaged wrists and arms; is it worth it? And why do we do it?

Because it's fun.



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Edit on things that actually have happened:
-Currently listening to The Count of Monte Cristo and decided that if / when I have children, they will be snobs and only read classics.
-Got kicked out of the basement room where Mike and I study by a group of mean girls that wanted to watch a movie
-Worked late on drawings and whitebook for morning crit
-Worked furiously on new drawings and did paint tests; realized spray paint is not that easy to work with. Accidentally painted large spot of gold on AA roof.
-Had crit with Monia where she kindly shot down the drawing I'd been working on.
-Went to the longest (and worst) lecture I've ever been to by Venturi + Scott Brown... 3 hours of mumbled tangents on her entire life history, loosely organized in chronological order.
-Had dinner and a pint at the pub
-Checked facebook incessantly for about an hour