How to be a zombie

Or the bored person's guide to not sleeping and other unhealthy habits. (Or, it's just being a zombie is more fun in the Philippines.)

What you need:

1. A real, challenging job
2. 6 units of graduate studies
3. An unequivocal desire to lose weight
4. People in your life

What to do:

1. Wake up on a Wednesday morning feeling like you can conquer the world because of the good phrases that your bosses have provided you with. Get some work done and head out for your errands.
2. Go to a lunch function full of lawyers and not say a word. What the F is litigation? Try to look your best and smile but spend your time eating and tweeting.
3. Attend a meeting for a project that you have very little background with for the first time. Get some smoothie and muffin and freeze your brain out before the meeting does.
4. Go get some dinner with your colleagues. Talk about your personal dating life and forget about the hierarchies at work for one. Think about tomorrow, tomorrow.
5. Decide to go home when they said they will do some walking around first. Realize that you have a book report that was due a week ago. You have not started writing about that yet.
6. Waste no time and start writing your book report. Thank God you made notes while cramming all the readings you made last weekend and a little last holiday vacation.
7. Down your first cup of coffee.
8. Write like there is no tomorrow until your hands are shaking because you'd realize that it is already 3 in the morning and you need to get some sleep. You are not finished with your report yet.
9. Sleep for a few hours and go back to writing. Cram, but with class like ho a graduate student would do it.
10. Panic because you have a meeting with your boss in a few.
11. Finish your paper but leave the conclusion open. You cannot think anymore.
12. Go to Seattle's and order a big breakfast. You will feel like you deserve all these food because you are not in college anymore and your body cannot handle all-nighters.
13. After the meeting, walk around Tomas Morato to look for your event's venue. Don't mind the scorching heat of the sun.
14. Go to your office for another meeting. Finish off some tasks as you wait for your partners.
15. Down your first bottle of energy drink.
16. Leave the meeting prematurely because you have to cram for your graduate class.
17. Write an epilogue for your paper and cram reading abut women's work and globalization in less than an hour.
18. Attend a feminist class that discusses women's work vis-a-vis globalization and its relation to the sexual division of labor.
19. Feel your brain cells dying, one by one.
20. After class, wait for a jeep for an hour. Be thankful for the fact that you have people.
21. Realize that you have not decently eaten anything since 10am. Find food and talk to your older cousin about her complicated love life.
22. Read around Thought Catalog and waste time on the internet.
23. Finally decide to sleep. It is not for the weak.
24. Wake up in the morning after 7ish hours and feel like getting a drink. Indeed, sometimes, little sleep equates to increased productivity compared to complete sleep.