Everyone should have a fall break

I have spent the past five days doing a whole lot of sleeping. Naps are my new best friend. I had no idea school was so exhausting. OK, that's a lie, I did. However, when given the opportunity to capitalize on nap time, I did not realize I would abuse it this much.

October is one of two months I enjoy living in Houston. The weather is a tad bit cooler, but still smells of Indian summer. I love the summer - it is by far my favorite season, so the relief from humidity with residual heat doesn't bother me one bit. I revel in it really. Also, the bonus of festival season! Even though the Greek Festival has been postponed to November this year, I can almost smell the spanokopita and loukamades from here...

Thanks to everyone who inquired about my midterms. They went fine overall I think, I'm still waiting on a few grades. I was relatively confident in my performance, although I walked out of my last final a bit disturbed, because for some reason the FIRST QUESTION on the whole test (should be a gimme) was giving me grief. The answer I was calculating didn't seem reasonable no matter how many times I tried it. I finally gave up and wrote a note saying the answer seems to be a bit higher than is reasonable. Of course, ten minutes later, the lights in my brain go on after driving away from campus, I whip out my calculator at the traffic light, and damn it, I figured out the mistake I made right there. Minor curses commenced. Afterwards, there was a direct beeline from our Finance final to the bars to drown our mushy brains further into oblivion. Everyone proceeded to get a wee bit "celebratory", which is always good times. Andrew had a heart-to-heart with my Accounting prof, something to the tune of Andrew requesting a periodic progress report of my grades and PTA meetings, and me wanting to punch him.

32 Hours to Freedom.

I start midterms in 20 minutes. YIKES!
Do you want to know how much college has changed (for me anyways)? Exams are OPEN LAPTOP nowadays.

So everyone is sitting around me doing one of two things - frantically checking notes with classmates in a panic of "did you get that comment he made in lecture 6? OH GOD I NEED THAT COMMENT HE MADE IN LECTURE 6!"

OR.

They are looking at each other saying, if I didn't learn it by now, it's not going to happen. And who's going to look at our grades anyways?

Here come the tests! See you in 32.

Because I dig Ames

A) Four places that I go to over and over:
McNair Hall, Rice Village, Home, YMCA

B) Four people who e-mail me (regularly):
Andrew, Janet, Marketing Professor, Team 5 People

C) Four of my favorite places to eat:
District 7 Grill, Texadelphia, Taco Deli, Star Pizza

D) Four places I would rather be right now:
Bed, Beach, Cannes, Getting a massage

E) Four people I think will respond:
4 people who are bored

F) Four TV shows I watch (regularly):
This is tough, because I don't watch much T.V, so it's more like "sporadically"... The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Dirty Jobs, John & Kate+8 (trainwreck), VH1 Top 10 Countdown