One more day

If I can just survive today and make it to class tomorrow morning to hand in all of my work, then I will finally be on spring break!!  I have been working my ass off since the middle of last week trying to get ready for all the madness that is the week before break when college professors take it upon themselves to assign an ungodly amount of work and at least one paper that is due after the break.  So far, I've had a quiz in education Monday night, worked on a group presentation that is due in a few hours for my communications class, written one paper about Dracula, the Victorians, and empiricism for lit and the occult, and I was up until midnight thirty last night analyzing one of several court cases for a 1,500 word legal writing paper that is due tomorrow along with the Dracula paper.  

I'm rounding the last turn and racing, almost uncontrollably, toward the finish line.  I can see it, and although I'm working crazy fast and super hard, I feel like it's never going to get here!  Tonight, I'm living for tonight, and the moment when I finish proofreading the legal writing paper that hasn't been written yet, click "print," and breathe for the first time in weeks.  Although it seems like a million court cases away, I know that the end is near, and I rejoice in that knowledge.  Come tomorrow, all that will be left for me to do is drive to campus, hand in my Dracula paper and watch the Prestige, then I'm off to legal writing where I'll finally hand in my paper, discuss Jonathan Swift's, A Modest Proposal (which is in fact not such a modest proposal, but well written regardless), and leave campus, not to return for a week.  To think, tomorrow this will all be just another memory from my college years, "the best years of your life," as so many people have ignorantly told me - ha, right!

All of the madness ends tomorrow for my friend Julie as well.  She's been just as busy as me, and she had a weekend trip to Texas last week turn into a week long (mis)adventure.  She didn't have any of her school stuff with her, and she's spent this week trying desperately to catch up.  I saw her yesterday to work on the group project and have lunch, and I am happy to report that she is surviving, too.  We've decided that Thursday night, when it's all said and done, she is coming over to our place for movie night.  So far it's to be a night of classics such as: Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Citizen Kane, Casablanca, and maybe, Vertigo.  I can't wait!

Thursday afternoon or Friday I have to take my car to get an oil change and a tire patched.  Yeah, you read that right, I have a piece of metal in the back, right tire.  It was just what I needed Monday afternoon.  Luckily, the tire hasn't gone flat, yet, but I have been seriously paranoid about the whole thing.  With my luck it will go flat at eight a.m. Thursday morning, and all of my work will be late, or it will go flat in the parking garage while I'm in class.  I'm just waiting, but Maryanne is holding up well so far.  I'm going to Tn to visit family and friends over break, and she is getting some major upgrades when I get home.  She's getting four new tires (I've had the ones on her now since I got her three years ago), an alignment, the transmission fluid changed, and washed and waxed.  My car should look like a car again by the time I get back.  Right now she looks like the beach with sand from the causeway covering the doors.

For break I'm going to Knoxville for the weekend and, "painting the town read," with my sister.  It's going to be great!  I also get to see my brother-in-law and their two big dogs.  I cannot wait.  From there I'm driving over to Franklin to see my parents and a couple of friends for a few days.  I'll probably do more work at my parents' house, yuck!  Maybe though I'll drive out to the lake to see some sailboats.  That would be nice.  Okay, well my legal writing paper is demanding attention so I must be going.  Try to have a good day, and if you're a college student in the midst of midterms, then just hang on for a couple of more days.