the last ______ of the semester

its the beginning of the third to last week of school. getting down to the semester's dirty work and in a bind for time. was i not just stressed to death two weeks ago over this kind of stuff? anyway, trying to nip the stress in the bud by hitting each memo on the agenda with a one punch knockout. by that i mean trying to get whatever done in one sitting. i've been successful so far on the things that are considerably easy... i.e. reading, brainstorming, wasting time, writing blogs. okay, so maybe i've gotten a little off track, but you're allowed to do that every once in a while, darn it. since the semester is drawing to a close and theres only, let's see...nine more days of classes, we are getting into the last ishkamabobcrap of the semester (ishkamabobcrap is a word i just made up to replace "blank", "fill-in", or skipping a beat in the sentence). this means last english paper, lab class (amen!), stat lab, chemistry homework, stat homework, sociology paper, set of english journals, and what-have-you. yay!

what makes me green with envy (in a hey-thats-not-fair kinda way) is that becca only has six more days of school. ya. not just six more days of classes...thats including exams. so she not only gets out a week earlier than i do, but she only has one day of consisting of two exams. thats it. grrr. i guess i can't really complain too much. my stat exam is a week earlier than other exams, our last formal lab report is due that same week, i have my english in-class essay monday the 12th, tuesday is my non-cumulative soci exam, and i've got two and a half days to prepare for my final chem exam on friday. even though megan and i will perhaps be the only ones stuck on campus on the last day of school, i at least have plenty of time to study for the dreaded make-or-break-me chem final.

off of the school topic, it was an interesting morning. i was ready for colette to pick me up at 10...but she was picking me up at 10:15. i decided i'd run over to the dining hall to grab a bite to eat before church. well, the university decided that students that sacraficed time with the fam to come back for the game saturday didn't deserve any breakfast the next morning.

(side note: speaking of the system of how the university operates over breaks, i have a bone to pick with them. whether the breaks be for fall, the turkey, or spring, what moron dictates when you can get into your room?? why, on two or three day breaks, are students kicked out of the dorms? what if they lived thousands of miles away and didn't have a home to go to? don't we pay for these rooms? what what? we couldn't get into the dorms until an hour after the game. some people (not including me) may not have realized that it would be so cold and wet during the game. plus, the closest room to thaw out was on the other side of campus. they could have at least opened an hour before the game. grrr.)

with an empty stomach and full of disappointment, i went over to the spot where colette was going to pick me up at 10:15. waited and waited. at 10:27, three minutes before church started, i called her up to see her status. turns out she was just leaving her place and still had to run over to kroger. i was quite upset and jo and i ended up taking his car and being ten minutes late to church. what do ya know, but the sermon was on forgiveness. figures. God manages to direct the sermons toward me on sudays. funny how that works.

worked on my ishkamabobcraps all afternoon. tried really hard to resist the temptation to fall asleep. i had turned the temp of our room up to about 80 degrees cuz i was freezing earlier. it was the kind of temp that lulls you to sleep. it worked for megan, who took two or three naps today. another complaint i have about the dorms is that the temperature on the lofted beds is so much warmer than when i'm working at my desk. i get comfy on my bed and freeze when i get down. just can't get happy. oh well. wish me luck on the ishkamabobcrap.