Monday, October 21, 2002
Grrr …. My brain is exploding. I just took the mother of all evil, cruel, and insane midterms. It was my Corporate Finance midterm, which I have been studying for like a mad woman for the last three days. After so much studying that I could no longer comprehend numbers, I decided to place the fate of my grade on luck. I decided to wear my grandma’s gold watch since wearing my silver watch for my last test did not promote miraculous events, since there were none. I bought pencils today, since I literally had to scrape together the 5 or so pencils I used just studying. But I completely exhausted my supply after digging all the ones I could find out of my backpack and around my bed. When I was picking out pencils to use for the test, I steered clear of the mechanical ones with white tabs. One very superstitious individual once told me that white lighters were bad luck, so today I decided white pencils were bad luck. I left very early for the test so I would get to class early and have time for some pre-test meditation. And it’s a good thing I left early because I still waited 20 minutes for a bus. I should have walked, but I didn’t think of that until standing at the bus stop for 15 minutes. So, I make it to my class, and everything is in place: gold watch, non-white pencils, my 2 lovely calculators … I’m as ready as can be. I think I must have been pretty nervous because when the teacher passed the tests down the aisle, I took the rest and passed one instead of taking one and passing the rest. So I am sitting there with about 5 tests in my hand … yeah I was so excited about the test that I wanted to take 5 of them! But I think my reliance on luck was somewhat generous to me because I am sure I passed the test. I think I actually did pretty well.
This week and last week have sucked a lot. I had a Financial Institutions midterm on Thursday, spent my weekend studying for my Corporate Finance midterm, and its not over. On Wednesday I have some lame project due for comparative politics, just assigned on Friday. It is stupid and I know it is going to take me hours upon hours to complete because it is like 50 questions and will require a lot of researching. Then I have a project due on Friday for Quantitative Methods and a test in there next Tuesday. Then, the month of November is papers and presentations. I think I have either a paper or presentation due in every class. And once that is over, it will be time for finals, and I will be DEAD. This week has just sucked and I don’t want to do any more thinking.
Setting aside all of the studying, my weekend was pretty good. On Friday, Todd and I joined in one another’s misery (we were/are both sick like dead fish). I can’t really even remember Friday. I think we just layed around and watched Nick@Nite. Saturday night, I went to Todd’s choir concert and it was very nice. Afterwards we went to Todd’s apartment and his parents invited me to spend Christmas, cabin-style, which I am really pumped for. I think that renting a cabin to spend the week of Christmas is a cool idea and I am excited about it. Of course I will have to be at my house for the actual day of Christmas, but they have the cabin for a whole week, so I am going to be an old-fashioned dirty cabin girl this Christmas. On Sunday, Todd and I went to eat lunch at Bruegger’s Bagels. The bagel was ok but I don’t think I want to go back there again. The girl rolled her eyes at me and was acting like a bitch and I didn’t even do anything. I guess she was having a bad day – or she was just a bitch. Whatever, she’s on my death list now.