Summer Essays

I'm taking a few moments off from writing my essay to reflect on the fact that it's significantly more depressing to write essays in summer.

I have to be up for work in seven hours, but here I am psychoanalyzing the speaker in a Lucille Clifton poem ("forgiving my father" if you're interested, though I'm more partial to a new critical reading than a psychoanalytical one).

I've decided that I need to become one of those people who can get by on five or six hours of sleep each night without any ill effects. I've always liked to have eight, but it's really been cutting down on the amount of time I have to, you know, do things.

Alternatively, Mountain Dew "energy drink" just came out here in Canada. For all you folks in the States, Canadian Mountain Dew doesn't have caffeine in it - we've got some crazy law that doesn't allow anything but Pepsi-coloured pop (that's our word for soda, by the way) to have caffeine in it. So, cola, root beer, Dr. Pepper are all fair game, but not Mountain Dew. Of course, this new Mountain Dew "energy drink" is just loaded up with the stuff and has a bunch of medical directions plastered over the side of the box. Next essay I think I'll try some.