staggerin' zombie

So. Tired.

I'm drinking a big honking mug of that jasmine tea that makes me sneeze, in an attempt to revivify myself for another four or five hours of studying tonight. Or two or three. One, at any rate.

I took my outline to the gym with me this morning, something which it feels like I was only just doing scant moments ago. If I'd had more than just weekends at the gym this semester, maybe it would feel as though more time had elapsed since December. Still, I'm not sure I could have stood it had this semester gone on any longer. This has been the longest year of my life. I've aged at least a decade.

Study session in The City was reasonably productive, with a lot of the juice (at least the preclusion and joinder juice) coming from my flowcharts. My husband, whose prodigious sense of efficiency is overshadowed only by the extraordinary limits on his patience, sat down with me last night to help me bash out actual processes. All seven of my study-groupmates made appreciative "ooh" "wow" and "I need that" noises upon beholding the masterpiece he inspired on joinder of parties. They even liked the preclusion flow, although I made that one myself and my husband thinks it needs improvement. Still, if it works for me -- not to mention my fellows -- we're the ones actually taking the test. My outline is frickin' thirty-six pages; I need something I can fit in my brain-pan, and these are doing the job nicely.

If I can force myself to stay awake. I could cave and go get myself a pearl milk tea, which is perhaps the most fattening, sugary, caffeinated pick-me-up imaginable (and is accordingly satisfying). But it would just be so nice to be able to shake off my afternoon doldrums and get back to cranking. The exam is on Wednesday, it's closed-book, and I should really be done memorizing by tomorrow night so I can really haul on the paltry few practice exam questions the professor has made available.

I take solace in the fact that every passing day brings me closer to the END of the exam period...

thus spake /jca @ April 27, 2003 07:02 PM