My head is filled with jumbled warnings and flashing red lights signaling the impending deadline I have to meet. My table is strewn with papers and note cards and stapled photocopies of documents that I need to work on immediately. The sense of urgency is weighing down on me yet my body refuses to snap out of this stupor. This all-too-familiar feeling of laziness and dread, of want and need, of sleep and sleeplessness.
I switched my phone on and checked my calender and a new wave of dread washes over me like cold sweat. I could hear the clock ticking and my professors' faces flash before my very eyes - tutting at me because I missed the deadline. I am having a nightmare and I am wide awake. I am Alice in Wonderland and I see the Cheshire Cat with his impish grin following me. I hear his voice in my ear saying something about festering wounds. Someone wake me up!
Put it off tomorrow. No, do it today. Leave me alone, why don't you?
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