AAAAAAH....i am done. such a nice feeling of relief *whew* i had maybe an hour's worth of sleep last night, but i think i did fine on the chem final...i sort of like doing all those mechanisms and syntheses when they work out correctly (at least i hope they were correct =P) we shall see =) so i finish my final, went to lunch, then went to bed until michelle and i went to dinner, which is just ridiculous because i ate again when i was seriously not hungry yet. i mean, really, how can you get hungry in five hours when all you've done is sleep?

ooh ooh, dining hall food story! so i got mashed potatoes with gravy and corn and this pie thing for dinner tonight since i knew i couldn't eat that much, but what was really gross was that when i took a bite of mashed potatoes, i felt a distinct *crunch*. ewwww...my friend suggested that maybe they just hadn't cooked it all the way through, but potatoes don't normally crunch in the first place unless you fry them! and then michelle thought it might have been a bug...thanks. so that incident curbed my appetite somewhat =P insects are rather full of protein, but that's still ew. i'm too used to thinking of insects and bugs as creepy-crawly things that you don't even want to touch, much less eat. in some places in mexico though, they serve chocolate-covered ants in movie theaters just like popcorn. i always found that to be interesting =)

and i just need to say that the whole finals experience is horribly unhealthy. well, maybe it's only unhealthy when you do it my way, but my way seems to be fairly common: pretend to study until a couple nights or the day/night before the final, when you suddenly attempt to cram a whole quarter's worth of knowledge into your brain at once. it's f-ed up my body to no small degree =P now all i want to do is sleep during the day because that's when i'm tired, but no! i shouldn't! so i'm going to find some way to stay up until at least midnight. okay, maybe 11 if i'm weak. but i must get back to a schedule that somewhat resembles the socially accepted norm because it just makes life a whole lot easier when you aren't sleeping during regular mealtimes. meals are so important to me while i'm at school because there's such a small window here to actually get food from the dining halls. if you miss it, then you're stuck buying food, and we know how stingy i am =P like i said the other day, the first thought i had when i woke up that morning was that i was upset that i had missed dinner, not that i could have missed my final...haha. i'm so messed up sometimes.

oh, and to add to my dorkiness quotient, my cursor is now a little green turtle. yes, i downloaded a turtle cursor last night on my study break. *sigh* but either that or my newly downloaded weatherbug is messing with my computer because it's contantly freezing and being belligerent these days. i even uninstalled icq cuz i thought that was the problem at first...but it's not like i ever used icq much anyway.

i'm so excited about going home!

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what you don't have you don't need it now
what you don't know you can feel it somehow
what you don't have you don't need it now
don't need it now...
was a beautiful day