Heart of Darkness

Yes, we've spiraled into finals week which is why I haven't been posting. I'm too scared to stop working.

I've averaged roughly 3-5 hours of sleep a night (if I'm lucky) for the past two weeks and I sort of forgot about food. For a while I was getting to bed around 6 a.m. every night. And yet I'm having the time of my life. I'll quickly demonstrate before I have to jet to my next study group:

• buying cigarettes and Half-Baked ice cream for dinner

• scaring a buff guy in a muscle shirt witless b/c I determined to climb over a fence rather than go around. Mel: "He's probably in love with you now. He confused the heart palpitations with attraction."
• massage orgies to remedy the knotty messes which our backs have become over computers
  
• reminiscing with Sean and Tom about our semesters abroad in Austria looking at pictures and videos
• making chili dinner for 15 people
  
• smoker's telepathy: "I could sense you were out here smoking. That's why I came here to join you."
• not studying for the history final, but instead going to watch Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy because my friends pressured me into it and I have no willpower when it comes to movies I've been waiting for. Just to warn you, don't go with a bunch of lit majors: they'll quote all their favorite lines that weren't in the movie for like 30 minutes afterwards. I thought the movie was great, the thing sticking most in my mind being the jumping fools gold crab that goes "weeee!"
• Studying history with Sean and arguing about the characters in the medieval romance epic Eric and Enid about which of them was the one to "let themselves go".
• After explaining to a horrified Sean, pop drinking-cholic, that I despise the taste and just drink it for the caffeine, I let out a huge burp which cause Brigid, Tom and Dominic to halt and attempt to locate the noise: "S'cuse me (while blushing) And that's why I don't like pop" say I. "Notice I haven't burped" says Sean. "You must be more ladylike than I am." He reels back at the comment. "Don't worry, Sean, I affirm your masculinity." "I don't think I have any left after that comment!"
  
• Watching Monty Python and the Holy Grail with Mel to celebrate the end of Medieval Europe II. Yeah! Go team!
  
• Teasing Sean about putting off finishing Brothers Karamozov book notes and thus screwing himself over for finals week...then getting suddenly shoved off the picnic table.