I thought the 14 hour days grinding out work would end after I got the degree. Oh no no no.
The only difference is, I’m getting paid.
Well, that’s only half true!
I’m listening to the Bastard Fairies. Their irreverence and playful vulgarity is just what I need as the clock pushes 1am again.
Which reminds me I’ve never documented my slight synesthasia. Since high school, I’ve experienced the hour 10pm as blue, 11pm as yellow, midnight as red and everything after as a kind of polka-dotty mess. I existed in that polka-dotty mess for months! You haven’t lived until you’ve constructed a 10×8 map of Europe out of 8.5×11 inch sheets of paper that…and I’m not making this up…folded down to the size of one sheet like a map — for no reason whatsoever than it made complete sense at 4am when I started it. It involved some complex scotch taping. I should still have that map in a cabinet somewhere.
This is what I feel like now:

