No more romantic biology pour moi!

My Darwin paper is safely turned in. It was actually basically done at 3 this morning. I got up at 9:30 (though I don't know how, because I realized I forgot to set my alarm last night!), cleaned it up a bit, and wrote a conclusion in between some internet-type distraction. Got dressed around 10:30, packed up my stuff, printed out my paper, and caught the 11 o'clock bus. I ended up having to run to the Reg to correct something I'd forgotten in my paper, so it was 11:45 before I had lunch and was sitting somewhere I could study French. The C-Shop really isn't the greatest place in the world for studying, but it actually leaves your soul intact, unlike some other buildings on campus. And I can eat here, which is a plus, because I'm already operating on something like 6 hours of sleep and I don't need to be starving, too. At least I'm kind of happy with the paper I just turned in. Which is crazy, because, really, I didn't actually start writing it until about ten last night, and most of that was done while having several rather distracting (yet entertaining) IM conversations and watching people try to deal with the special craziness that's going on in and around the IRC channels I lurk around in. It's... well, it's special, that's about it. I think I actually got more done in a smaller amount of time over dinner, but somehow I not only turned out a coherent paper, but one with a decent thesis as well (at least, I hope it came off that way. It made sense to me while I was writing it which is, unfortunately, more than I can say for my Civ paper. I guess I just write better under pressure.)

Also, after sitting here for an hour, I'm pretty much out of French to study. I've somehow reviewed an entire quarter in about an hour. I'm going to have to go back over most of it again a bit after one, but if I just went at it for the next 45 minutes, I'd probably get sick of it and not want to take my final at all. I don't know how I'm going to survive the oral exam, though. I'm horrible with speaking, and I can't remember the newer tenses well enough to be able to use them quickly in speech. I'd have to sit there with a sheet of paper and write down what I wanted to say first, look it over, and then read it. I think I'll settle on just hoping our final isn't "Write 20 sentences and use this, this, and this" like our midterm was. I'll cry. Not that they'd take pity on me or anything, but I'd cry anyway.

In happy news, though, I'll be totally done with finals in 24 hours, and in 49.5 hours I'll be discussing how, exactly, I'm going to have a major here and graduate. And then... then I'll do some shopping, maybe attempt to get my cell phone fixed/replaced, and go home. I suppose somewhere in there, preferably today, I should call the theatre and tell them I'm coming back, huh? (Though my mom's telling me to take the winter off and rest, sadly I think I'm going to need the money more. Gah.)

All right... back to studying with me, yo. Here goes nothing!

GRR! AHH!

Freaking school. Freaking French oral exams. I freaking can't think quickly in French, it's freaking unfair to ask me to. Freaking grr. Freaking subjunctive tense, should've stuck to the verbs I knew. Grrrr.

Other than that, though... one more final to go!

(I'm so getting a terrible grade in French. Stupid class. Should've taken it Pass/Fail. The written exam was almost fine, because I had two hours to think of things, and I can always, always write better than I speak. Not giving me the slightest warning about what the oral exam is going to be like and therefore making it impossible to prepare? Not fair! Grrrr. I'm going to go soak in the bath for about three hours, and then regret it later because I really need to study for Civ. And get some sleep.)