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Today was a good day, I didn't even have to use my AK.

But seriously, today rocked. At least, taken all together, the outcome was positive.

I accomplished some good things today, but also suffered a major setback: I actually mustered the testicles to pick up my chemistry midterm. I got 14/30. I'm not going to bother calculating a percentage on that right now.

However, that can be quickly forgotten. Today I did three amazing things to counteract that one. First, I managed to stay awake through my entire chemistry lecture. I don't know if I've mentioned it before, but it's the damndest thing. I wake up at 7:30, get to physiology by 8:30, and at 9:30 I'm in chem. At which point I invariably fall asleep someime during the 50 minutes I'm there. It's riciculous. But today I managed to keep my lids open and take notes the whole time.

Also, after an abortive attempt while I was doing my laundry on Monday, I managed to work for just about the rest of the day. From noon to 2:30 I banged off a report for my Kin 101 lab and from then to 5:00 I studied for my second physiology midterm. It was that which I had tried, with limited success, to do on Monday. I was quietly confident. After I recieved my chem mark today I can say that physiology midterm number one was my highest midterm mark. By 14%. In spite of the fact that I had missed a number of lectures pertaining to the marerial being covered, I was still feeling prepared. I'm sure you've encountered the feeling: There are some exams you've studied for as much as you could and still felt, somewhere in your gut, that you weren't ready for. Then there are ones like physiology midterm two where, in spite of a remarkable lack of physical evidence, I felt a strong confidence about eminating from that same place. It was a fundation on which I built my efforts, and without it I don't believe I could have accomplished amazing feat number three:

I wrote physiology midterm number two at 5:45. It was 51 multiple choice questions: 35 from all classes before reading week (including a, presumeably scarce, number from material covered in the first midterm), 15 from the 4 lectures after reading week, and one bonus question. When I entered the exam room, I was already riding on adrenaline. I have mastered the art of writing exams with no concern. By 2 or 3 hours beforehand there is little one can do to improve one's state of readiness, and worry only makes my hands shake (much sooner than the adrenaline). But this was one of the few exams I have been excited to write. And I set a personal best when I did so. I actually came close to one on the first midterm, finishing in just over half an hour. But this time I was done by 6:10, only 25 minutes from the start time (and that's going under the assumption that UW actually started an exam on time). So, we'll see in a week if the marks reflect my confidence. until then, I'm watching Gunslinger Girl, reading PA, listening to the Requiem for a Dream OST, and

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