Word: sleeps
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Laziness is not for the weak of heart. Don’t feel too discouraged when you’re just beginning—it takes finely honed skill to sleep until noon, eat, waste six hours on the Internet, eat, and sleep again. Most give up around the middle of the afternoon and start reading Foucault, or, God forbid...
First, and most importantly, make sure you are getting almost 10 hours of sleep a night. Nothing I’ll suggest later in this column will be as mentally and physically satisfying as being almost too well-rested. Don’t neglect the many different categories of nap, either: post-breakfast, afternoon, pre-dinner, and 7pm. Any time spent sleeping will seem to fly by at nearly 108 times the speed of normal life, greatly accelerating the approach toward your impending thesis deadline...
Despite her late-start, Petrich hopes to finish by 8:30 the next morning because of work. She spends most of the night sewing the outfit by hand and watching movies, and finally goes to sleep at five in the morning. So much for an early night...
...children of whom Mr. Thayer speaks, Dylan and Tuscany, are entertaining, but a bit flat. Dylan is a drugged out 17-year-old who has no motivation to do anything but go to clubs, chat on Instant Messenger and sleep. He certainly doesn’t care about the SAT, though he has an amusing tendency of incorporating Harriet Tubman into every essay. Dylan’s sister Tuscany is a 15-year-old Lolita. She easily seduces older men and pretends not to care about school, though underneath the pink sparkly exterior, she is actually interested in learning...
...essay in riotous cod rococo: swagged chintz, contorted gilt (even the bathroom fittings are gold-plated) and vibrant color (the bedroom juxtaposes canary yellow with magenta). The penthouse walls are decorated with gesso oak branches mounted on mirror to evoke the tangled briars that grew up around Sleeping Beauty's castle. There are lamp fittings shaped like birdcages, twig-like door handles on which perch golden birds, a tented ceiling, painted silk walls and an abundance of cherubs and shells, as well as a number of watercolors by Messel, two of them designs for The Sleeping Beauty...