finals

finals: tests, papers, projects, presentations, posters, all-nighters.....
ruining my life right now and spoiling my last week of college.


will be done on tuesday and hopefully recovered by wednesday after sleeping for first time in days.
LAST CYCLE OF EXAMS/ESSAYS EVER??? ---> if I go to design school, there might be exams and final projects, but i imagine in an entirely different format and in subjects i'm interested in. unlike medieval history, which i just finished a paper in about a dead language, or french agricultural development, which i wrote a paper in last week, en francais. byerk!

recent good things:
michael's fake surprise bday party was fun
art brigade field trips--- well i survived and i consider that an accomplishment after taking 60 poorly behaved hyper kids through an art museum without a docent/tourguide
j and a's birthdays- dinner at donna's, always successful, and then fancy dinner at pazo last night. wore my new high waisted fancy-pants (yes really im calling them my fancy pants) and a's shiny top and heeeels, and ate so so so many delicious tapas. love doing tapas with other vegetarians, makes it a lot less complicado, but man was that place expensive! will go back when have established independently wealthy status/married for money.
what we ate: haricots verts with sea salt and almonds, broccoli (how the fuck do you spell broccoli i never get it right, thank you spellcheck) with chili oil and pecorino, zuchinni cakes with mint yogurt sauce, manchego potato croquettes, crispy artichoke which turned out to mean battered and fried and was my favorite thing, a white pizza covered in spinach, peas, buffalo mozz, and garlic, and for dessert s and i split a brown butter apple tart that was like heaven.

basically ate my weight in fatty, rich, salty foods and then came home and pulled an all-nighter to finish this essay on medieval judeo-french and medieval jewry.  professor said she really liked my research idea and outline and if the essay turned out well she wanted to submit it for the undergrad writing prize, but seeing as it was mostly written between 5 and 10 am on the due date, i doubt it will be that marvelous.

hopking to do just well enough to maintain my 3.5 this semester and graduate with honors, beyond that do not care about grades. just want to be donnnneee so i can celebrate and drink and go out and enjoy my last time here at hopkins!