The Worst is Over Now

Well, it's midway through finals week, and I can breathe again. Since I banned myself from blogging for the past few days, I'll catch you up on what important or just plain interesting things have been happening.

Monday--Asaph's Cow, the college literary magazine came out. My short story was the first piece in the table of contents. That was fun. But even better, Dr. Hart, who was my communications professor last semester, wrote me an e-mail to say how much he liked it. That was cool of him. That afternoon I locked myself in my room to write a 5 page paper for LAR, which actually turned out pretty well. (Apparently Cole never getting back to me about it was a vote of confidence) Then after Cru a bunch of us played Mafia in the GI lounge. Yes, I love that game! I was Mafia twice in a row and totally killed everyone! (literally, yet not; If you've never played, you'll just have to be confused) then I was a townsperson and got bumped off pretty quickly, but it was still fun. I also took the time at one point to draw an invisible box on the marker board across from my door. ;)

Tuesday--Reading Day. Ah, the joys of no classes. I believe this was the first time I ever spent an hour in the caf at breakfast, thanks to Jesse and Erika and random conversation. It was fun. Then I attended the last chapel of the semester, kind of sad really. And guess what I spent the rest of the day doing? That's right, I conjugated 36 Spanish verbs in 11 tenses along with the command forms. Thankfully I was allowed a break when the USF faculty served us "Late Night Finals Breakfast" in the caf. It was really good.

Today--Spanish final at 10:30. It actually went pretty well, for which I am very grateful. One part I had trouble with was the preterite forms of "dar." Nothing I put looked right, so Dra. Duyos had to help me. Well, now I feel silly. The reason it didn't look right is because it's an irregular verb and it isn't supposed to look regular. Geesh. And I so knew that last night and even at breakfast this morning. Oh well. Dra. Duyos ended her time with us by saying how much she enjoyed having us in class and saying that we'd all be succesful at what we planned to do. She remembered that I'm a writer, which pleased me. For everyone else she had to ask what their plans were so she could tell them that they would succeed. Anyways. LAR went quickly: I handed in a paper, got a paper back and filled out a survey type thing on the class. Then we helped Dianna move a lot of her stuff home and stopped by Target so I could pick up my allergy meds. It would be bad to run out of those during finals, don't you think? This brings us up to now, when Dianna and I just got back from taking advantage of the sale at the bookstore.

Theoretically Suzy is moving home tonight. I'm gonna miss my roomie! It will also just be weird when she's gone. An entire half of the room will be completely bare. then it'll really feel like the year is ending. I know I'm already done with half of my classes, but this place still feels like home. This is where my "family" is, all of my good friends who I see every day. Not that I won't be glad to be home with my real family, I love my fambly :D (odd spelling intentional). It's just one of those things. But I think I'm done talking for now. We'll see if I can come up with anything good later.

God bless.
-Kim