Deadlines and Burnout

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Here I am, it's 1:15am, and I have an 18 page paper due in about 12 hours, and a 20 page paper due in less than 24 hours. I have maybe 30% done altogether. I hate this. I didn't procrastinate- it's just that so many things have been coming up these last couple weeks and my concentration is just totally shot.

I thought I'd be able to get much of these done this weekend, with the exception of Sunday, and then I'd make up for missing time on Sunday by doing stuff on Monday. I am a bridesmaid in my cousin's wedding, and her bachelorette party was at an indoor water park. I had to go... and while it was fun once I got over the sensory overload, it completely exhausted me. Actually, I didn't really get over the sensory overload, but rather went numb and kind of stayed in a dreamy kind of survival mode, and then all of Monday I was so utterly drained from being around lots of people in an atmosphere like that, that I literally couldn't get out of bed until about 8pm. This happens every time I do something like that, (though it's not often that I go to amusement/water parks :p ) so you'd think I'd have learned my lesson by now.

And now, I'm completely freaking out because I have no focus whatsoever, and I'm so burned out from this semester. Like right now, my head feels like it is buzzing. I'm not even really sleepy-tired, but I'm sooo mentally tired, and I could probably sleep for days if I let myself. I feel like my senses are all colliding with one another, if that makes any sense.

Heh, sorry if this turned into a rant. I kind of feel slightly better now. Do you have any tricks on focussing yourself when you have something important to do, but you are just totally burned out?

I can't wait until this semester is all over!

Well, if we can fix it so I can hear you, then you could talk and I could type (90 wpm) in Word - and together we could smash out first drafts of your papers. If you know your subject (just enough) you could ramble on and when it's typed we could edit for clarity.

Let me know. And good luck!

p.s. no charge.

Wow, I end up like that too! After something heavily social, I am asleep for most of the next two days.

Good luck with you. If I had an answer, I'd fix it myself--- I am also in last week of a term and wiped out!

Claradoon's suggestion sounds fantastic! Just thought I'd say that. Maybe I'll think of how to do something like that in the future to get what I need to get done, done.

The offer stands, free to all WPers. I used to be a legal secretary, it's an easy gig for me. Just post here, it'll send me an email. I'm not offering a perfectly done paper, just a first draft in Word. I'm not sure how to fix it so I can hear you while I type.

Claradoon, that is really kind of you!

I ended up forcing myself to get the one paper about 90% done, then took a 3 hour nap and slept with my head nestled between two pillows. That kind of seemed to calm the sensory stuff. Now I am finishing the last paragraph, and about to hand the whole thing in.

The other one is about half done, and I've got 12 hours to finish it. I've got an outline for that one, so it's just a matter of filling in the blanks.

Thanks, and good luck to you, too!