I'll be honest friends--my brain is absolutely fried. And to make this even less convenient, I have another 3 weeks or so before my school let's us out of the cage that is academia for our winter break. So today when I came home after being in class and at work all day, I simply couldn't bring myself to sit down, open a book and pretend that any information I might read would actually become embedded in my brain, and decided to spend my time doing something so stupid and pointless the universe would just sigh and shake its head at me: I turned my roommate Emily into Frank N. Furter from The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

No, there wasn't a costume party she was attending.

There was literally no reason at all for the transformation, except for my crippling procrastination.

But guess what? I feel so much better. I can't explain exactly why doing pointless things like that makes me less panicked about my schoolwork, but I have a feeling that it's a kind of catharsis for me--i.e. I do stupid stuff and the ridiculousness of it relieves my stress. And I've found that doing something that involves art in some way reduces my stress levels even further, especially when I have a fun/funny-looking product at the end.

So now I'll walk you through my process in case you too suffer from brain overload and just need some tomfoolery in your life.

Step 1: Locate your target and convince them to stay home and let you put draggy makeup on them instead of going to the library.

Step 2: Do your Rocky Horror research.

Step 3: Briefly reevaluate your life decisions.

Step 4: Put makeup on your roommate before she changes her mind.

I don't know if this will help anyone (because I doubt many of you have ever felt the need to transform your friends into characters from Rocky Horror) but I do hope that this made someone smile. And, if you're lucky, maybe you feel just a tad bit less stressed out about whatever big projects--academic or otherwise--you have looming on the horizon.

Just remember this:

Take a time out to assess your mental well-being if your finals are threatening to obliterate your brain. And if that means you need to do stupid art projects in order to restore your equilibrium, you do you.

And Dr. Frank N. Furter believes in you.