blind as a bat

I'm typing this without my contact lenses, because I went to dinner at my classmates' place last night at 8:30 and got home at 4 AM. For some reason (which probably had to do with drinking wine followed by industrial-strength coffee), I couldn't stay asleep past 9:30. My lenses need at least six hours to soak in the disinfecting fluid, so that would be 10:00, so they're still soaking and I can't see a damn thing. I think I'll go be blind as a bat in the shower for a while. One of my classmates smokes, and my hair smells like an ashtray. Maybe that had something to do with my not sleeping, too.

It was a fun night, though. 10 or so people, 3 or 4 bottles of wine (I wasn't really counting, but people kept bringing wine and we kept drinking it). I'll have to clean this place up and borrow some chairs and invite people over here some day.

urgh

I have two more paragraphs of this composition to rewrite, and right now that feels like a lot. But I have to get it done tonight because I have to spend tomorrow doing classwork for Tuesday. I wish somebody else would sit here and tell me what to type so I didn't have to think about it. On top of which, I suspect that the composition I turned in last week is really the one I should have turned in this week, and I get frustrated trying to come up with enough differences between this one and the last one. The last one was fairly decent; this one sucks pond water through a flavor straw.

This wouldn't be such a problem in general if I wasn't running so short on sleep. Something like two thirds of my brain wants me to go to bed now, or at least stop trying to think, and the other third has the work ethic and is telling me that if I don't finish this composition tonight, I'll be in trouble tomorrow. I don't dare drink anything caffeinated because it will completely shred my sleep schedule until at least Wednesday if I do that.

I think tomorrow should be canceled. Kent State thinks Columbus Day is a moveable holiday, so they move it to November and use it as an excuse to be closed the Friday after Thanksgiving. I can see how that's useful, but I really wouldn't mind having tomorrow off.

Why doesn't LJ have a mood icon for "zombified"?

[EDIT 10:45: Done. Still zombified. But at least now I can stop thinking until tomorrow. I don't notice how tired I am when I'm not trying to think.]