my head aches, and a drowsy numbness pains my sense

[isleofinnisfree]

I always forget, after spending time out of this loop, how peculiar and demanding academic schedules are. It seems impossible that just three months ago I could sit down and spend a few hours translating Latin poetry, when tonight I kept blinking stupidly at it and thumbing through my dictionary. I remember being a freshman in awe of the handful of

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[heylookltsme]

It's funny that you say it feels like pregnancy. It very much felt like postpartum depression after it was over, like I had given birth to this thing and it was no longer a part of me. Yeah, I totally get the pregnancy metaphor.