3:00 AM

How is it 3 AM already?

Nobody should ever have to be up at 3 AM, but here I am, and here my finished essay isn’t. I greatly regret not finishing this up earlier in the night, or even earlier in the month, but these regrets aren’t helping me work now.

What did help me work was, ironically enough, more work. At the beginning of the night, reviewing my prompt and how I was supposed to go about writing this assignment helped me get on track for writing the introduction, where I outlined what the essay would be about. Then, when I had done that, I was able to think more clearly about what to write next, and even though I also found myself distracted, I was able to make the job a little more enjoyable with music, and I slowly worked through the body of the essay. But now, the only reason I feel I have to keep going and finish up is for the sake of being done. I can’t write well in my current sleep-deprived state, and it’s far too late to get any meaningful amount of useful activity or sleep out of my remaining time after I’m done. I’d really much rather lie down and nap now, but that will just add on to my regrets later, when I fail the assignment because I couldn’t finish it on time. So I’ll write the conclusion now, but I’ll hate every wasted second of it.