For those of you who noticed the odd del.icio.us link I put up recently... Kudos! It stands out like a sore frostbitten thumb in a sea of scrumptious glazed raised twist donuts (I'm a donut fan). So why did I put a post about depression in a art blog. Well you might have noticed the infrequency of some of my posts. And for those of you that know me, you would also know about my lack of progress in my project. Personally, I found her description of her situation surprisingly familiar to mine.
- "Sunday I slept all day, and it wasn't enough. Monday I went to work, but had to come home and go back to bed and sleep for many hours more, and it wasn't enough. Today I woke up, felt too exhausted, and called in sick so I could sleep until just a few minutes ago. It's still not enough. I'm not consciously trying to make the world go away, but that's the result."
I've actually been having pretty much that same problem. I just couldn't (more precisely can't) deal with my work. For the past few weeks every time I sat in from of the computer to start working on my project, my vision would blur, I wasn't able to concentrate, my stress would kick in into overdrive, and I just couldn't start working. Then when it came to sleeping I always had plans of sleeping for a while then waking up early to do some work either for the project or for one of my other classes. But not even having 2 alarm next to my ear and the lights turned on, would stop me from sleeping. I would just hit the snooze button for 2 or 3 hours, maybe be late for work, and then be grumpy for the rest of the day because I didn't wake up as I had panned. And like she says at the end of the qu
ote: "I'm not consciously trying to make the world go away, but that's the result." For me, I'm not trying to make my work go away either, but when I don't want to wake up in the morning that what it feels like .
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