TWO DOWN. Phew. Only 473 to go. Well, not exactly. But close. My William James final this morning went well. We presented papers- so other than making sure mine made sense, there wasn’t too much prep work to do. Also, Dr. Paulsen brought us sandwiches and cookies and chips and juice, and, get this, shrimp. Seriously. Shrimp. It was really good food. The discussion wasn’t too bad, either. I knew that I’d go, even though the speakers were chosen by lottery. It was a feeling I got when we decided to do it, and sure enough, my name was the first out of the envelope. But I felt like I made my point well and was able to contribute throughout the rest of the final. So all’s good. As for biology, we are DONE WITH THE CLASS. It feels so good. What we studied ALL DAY YESTERDAY did come in handy for the final- so I felt like the exam was fair. We’ll see how it goes- but I’m not too worried. I’m just so happy to be done. AND, this Friday, my parents will be here. Then Christmas really gets to start.
But why am I being so hasty? I totally skipped the rest of the weekend. Saturday, I think I wrote about…and it was a nice little date night. That’s something we hadn’t had in a while. I think we figured out that we actually hadn’t been to a movie at all this semester. Sunday we woke up and went to church. My class hysterical. I can’t believe the weird things kids come up with. My favorite comments of the day came from one little girl I’ll call vocabgirl. (Because she LOVES vocab time). So, we’re watching a video about Paul the Apostle and after a few minutes of watching, vocabgirl turns around to me (I was sitting behind her curbing the hair pulling/snot flicking tendencies of the boys in the class) and says: “Paul’s beard is incredibly unkept.” She said unkept, not unkempt, but it was still rather funny. And then later in a discussion about spiritual gifts…faith, musical talent, teaching skills, etc. she said, “I think mine is organization.” Well hey. You can’t denigrate that.
After church we got home and had some food- then immediately started reading and studying for our bio final today. For HOURS. We ran back to church to meet with our bishop, then home again home again jiggety jig for more studying. Ew. Jonathan came over and watched some movie about dragons (Circle of Fire? Ring…??) and then part of the classic, Blue Lagoon. Oh fun. So, tonight, some work, some cleaning, some more studying. Fun fun, no?
