Countdown ’till hibernation mode
Leave a Comment18 days, 1 hour, 42 minutes and 13 seconds. That’s how long it is until the Christmas break begins. I can’t wait. I know people say that all the time, but I literally cannot wait. I want to go home and think about something else than uni for just one minute.
Forget everything I said in my previous post about making this year last forever: I am so tired I feel like I could’ve slept continuously through the whole of next week, scrap that, next month if it hadn’t been for the tiny insignificant detail that I’ve paid a small fortune to be here.
If I’m not working on uni stuff, I’m talking about it (either through sympathetically calming someone down from a close-call breakdown or ranting to my flatmates) and if I’m not talking about it I’m definitely thinking about it. I keep a list of all the things I have to do, just to make sure my brain doesn’t burst from trying to remember everything that’s going on.
A normal conversation between course mates nowadays usually goes something like this:
“How are you?”
“Eeeeeh,” (facial expression reflecting panic attacks hovering just beneath the surface) “I’m OK” (fake smile).
“Mmmmm,” (knowing and conspiratory smile) “I know”.
“It’s just so… so… arh, it’s so –“ (eyes looking off in the distance)
“I know”.
“I feel so…. so–“ (eyes go inward-looking)
“Yup, I know.”
And then we sit there in silence looking despaired.
Projects and deadlines are piling up, and just when you think the workload can’t get any bigger, then it sure does. The light at the end of the tunnel is our 1.5 month long Christmas break. And that we have no exams. Which means we can enter hibernation mode as soon as the clock hits 5pm on December 12 (or 13 for some). Only 17 days, 23 hours, 10 minutes and 4 seconds to go.
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