Body aches, mind aches

So does that mean my mind is reflecting how my body feels, or my body is reflecting how my mind feels? What came first, the chicken or the egg?

...ok, not a great analogy, but I'm exhausted, so cut me some slack.

Life updates:

- I finished more applications! I pounded out five of them over the last 3 days, which is just ridiculous. I'm hoping to maintain a similar level of productivity for the rest of this week, so that I can finish by (at the latest) Sunday night; definitely won't have as much time to work on them after that. And I just want this headache over with.

- I hate my Gemstone team sometimes. For the uninitiated: Gemstone is a four-year interdisciplinary team research program at my university, and half of my team is full of slackers. Our project is really cool -- we're working with the emergency department (ED) of a nearby university hospital. We've written a computer simulation of their ED based on our observations and data we've retrieved from their databases, and now need to verify that it accurately simulates the actual ED. Then, we can propose solutions for improving the ED's efficiency (aka getting more patients through in less time, etc) and run them through the simulation to see if they will actually work. But, we've had a couple of people drop out over the past two years, and half of the remainder of the team doesn't do anything!! GAH. We're in the last stretch here, with just final data collection/analysis and a thesis to go. Five of us cannot handle the entire workload, especially when we have other shit going on in our lives.

- We have a big campus. I mean, I always knew this -- I have been here for going on four years now, after all -- but it feels 10x bigger when you're physically and mentally done.

- I slept at 3:30 a.m. last night/this morning?, woke up at 7:30 a.m. b/c I had to get ready and go to class. So, I left my apt at around 8:45 a.m. and I have class/meetings until 8:15 p.m. I've been running on 4-5 hrs of sleep per night for the past 2-3 weeks (weekends, 6-8hrs/night, maybe). Life sucks sometimes.

- I'm hoping we'll get out of our meeting early enough today so I can get back and watch NCIS and NCIS:LA w/ my aptmate. After working on applications and projects for the past five days straight, I am giving myself tonight off. Plan: Get back to my room, chill / watch the two shows / eat, shower, sleep. Wow. That sounds glorious.

Wow, looking back at what I wrote and how relatively uncensored it is, I really need some sleep tonight. Sorry about that.

I don't think I'll make it to the last of the apps. I'm 80% sure I'm going to cut the last school on my list, Duke. It has five essays (most schools have 1-3), and they're all very difficult, thought-provoking, soul-searching essays. I usually prefer that variety, just b/c it means I'm writing about things I actually believe in instead of spouting out facts on why I chose to apply to this school, etc., but by the time I get to them, I will just be way too drained to write anything coherent.


*falls face-first on keyboard*