Fortuitous

Fortuitous.  Definitely my new favorite word.

I finished two more exams today, with only one more to go.  Foundations was… stressful.  I only got about an hour of studying in before the test.  I woke up this morning with a horribly sore throat, no voice, and a generally zombie-like persona.  (Trust me, brains were definitely the main thing I needed.  Yup, zombie.)  Bryan was a complete dear and helped me cram, to great effect.  I couldn’t get even a single of the review problems myself, but he went through each one with me.  On the shuttle ride down to class, I got all of them myself in about fifteen minutes.  (With a declaration of "See, I retain!")  Yeah, the good news is that my short-term memory is one of the best out there.  Regurgitation queen.  And I definitely aced the test.  Brain-dead and everything.  And now I owe Bryan peach ice cream.  (Our agreed-upon price.)

Partial differential equations was… kind of dumb, as usual.  Mostly it’s a class of just having the right equations and not messing up tedious integrations.  Fortunately for me, we got a cheat sheet– one full eight and a half by eleven, double-sided.  I definitely forgot to write down one of the equations, though.  And it came up.  I’m also not entirely sure that I copied down this one equation correctly.  So I may have lost some points there.  I also completely spaced how to integrate sine squared, and I stared at it for (literally) about a half hour.  Fortunately, I’d written down the cos(a+b) trig identity (as well as some others), which allowed me to derive the sin(a)sin(b) identity, which in turn allowed me to derive the sine squared identity.  Very Bryan-like.  Deriving needed formulas in the middle of the test.  I still finished the test in an hour, though.  Overall it was easy-peasy, and I’ve clinched my A.

This is my first finals week when I’ve been sick, and it’s definitely the one that matters the most.  Three of my most key classes are this semester.  >.<  Fortunately I’ve done really well on all of my finals so far, and I have a full day tomorrow to study for the last exam.  (I would study more tonight, except that my plan changed to incorporate sleep as its highest priority.)  I’m gonna veg out a bit, not use my brain, and then crash.  Fortunately I gave myself an extra day after my last exam to get myself out of the dorms– I thought that I would be packed up by the time I was out of my last exam, but I can use that packing time to study instead.  Which I will need.

But I think I can do this.  I might still be able to get that 4.0, but a lot of that is highly variable.

And I’ll stop with all of the boring details about my grades this semester now.

(I think one of the signs that I’m brain-dead is not so much my grammar, spelling, syntax, or vocabulary, but simply my discussion topics.)

Ooooh!  Good news!  So the last puppy truck (from Guide Dogs, that delivers the puppies), came in mid-April.  As they usually come every two months or so, it looked as if I would be getting my puppy in mid- to late June, maybe even early July.  NOPE.  The next puppy truck comes *GASP* June 3rd.  That’s right.  Less than a month away.  And only a little over a week after my birthday!  I still have to settle a lot of details with Lisa, but it’s going to happen!  And it’s going to happen soon!  And then I’ll have a puppy whose ears I can snuzzle whensoever I choose.  A soft, squirmy, cuddly, furry thing which will love me with all its little heart.  And the paws!  I can play with its paws!  Oh dear, I am far too excited for my own good.  So!  Excited!

I was thinking about sestinas today (I cannot remember why, perhaps it was sickness-induced delusion?), and about how difficult they are to write.  And about how if I were to write a sestina, I think one of the words that I would use would be "spring," as it is the word in the English language with the single most denotations.  I’m not going to try to write a sestina, though.  I haven’t really tried poetry in a long time, and if I started again, it would not be to write a sestina.  Yuck.

Dummdedumm.  I don’t really have anything to say, really.  I am in quite a pleasant mood, even though I’m barely standing (sitting, really).  I think I will go nurse my sore throat with some hot tea and honey and then snuggle my stuffed animals under the covers.

Tootles!