argh

i wish i could change some things about my metabolism. now this is not the normal, 'oh, i wish that i could eat anything more than dry cereal and salad without gaining weight.' no, this is something much more deeply connected to my academic and creative life.
a. i wish stimulants affected me more. i can go to sleep within half an hour of drinking several cups of coffee. a drink with several hundred mgs of ginseng and guarana makes me slightly more alert for the next, oh, forty minutes at most. sugar tastes nice, nothing more. this is a difficulty because this means that i have trouble keeping myself awake for the purposes of getting work done.
b. i wish i could function on less sleep. i lost barely an hour of sleep last night, about two the night before, but found myself nearly nodding off in class, something to which i'm almost never prone. getting less than nine hours of sleep, or even just waking up to an alarm, can leave me groggy and non fully functional for the rest of the day.
why do i wish this?
because i have a term paper that i've barely started on to do. first draft is due wednesday morning at nine. and almost all my time between now and then is dedicated to either classes (which i can't afford to skip due to absence problems with my leaving campus for my sister's wedding the last weekend of class) or rehearsals for the musical (which i can't afford to skip because the thing would fall apart without me). now i could turn it in later, but i want to get it done soon because otherwise i'll be stressed to hell later, like in the precious few days i have between the musical going up and my leaving campus to pack my shit and work out a final project for programming which i have no idea how the fuck to start on.