School = Life

Hey guys!

I'm feeling pretty lazy right now. I've decided the homework is out of the question on this particularly cold Friday; I'm just killing some time before some friends come to town. Eating (again) and then the Badger Hockey home opener! Should be a good time. I'm very excited!

It's been quite awhile since an update, as is ususally the case. School has been rather rapacious toward me lately ... I'm just not getting a break. No breathers in sight, either. I haven't even been doing that many outside of school activities; I'm more or less just trying to stay on top of classes, which are consistently trying to take over my life. Don't get me wrong - I'm loving what I'm studying. I enjoy going to most of my classes and think my professors are basically brilliant (though a few have a slight God complex, which is to be expected here ... ). But they just like to push us really hard. Or maybe I'm the only one who's being pushed hard. Whatever it is, I've been working my butt off to little avail: I got a B on my Journalism paper and a C on my Shakespeare exam, and usually have no idea what's going on in my amazing Lit class. (I love it, but most people are too smart for me! Too smart or just really good at BS-ing, which I think is closer to the truth.) On the other hand, I got a B+ on the Botany (well, pseudo-Botany, because we really don't talk about plants. We mostly talk about the social implications of plants) exam that I didn't study at all for. Maybe I should make my living studying plants. BLAH! It just sorta sucks when you study stuff that you enjoy and should be good at, but you're just not doing as well as you would like. And I can't study any harder. I really can't. So, we'll just see how the final grades come out. I think that most professors grade on improvement. I can only hope ...

In other news. Well, there's not really much other news, seeing as school = life. But, I was ill for awhile. Really ill. I had a nice little bout of pneumonia. I basically didn't move from Sunday to Tuesday afternoon. And then my roommate drove me to the bus that drove me home. And then I tried to go to class on Thursday morning and my Professor was kind and said, "Nikki. Go home and go back to bed." I was so happy! And then I slept most of Thursday. And then I took two midterms on Friday. It was interesting. Needless to say, sleeping all week makes a busy week much faster and less stressful! I should get sick all the time before midterms. Then I could totally justify bad grades!

Well. I guess I'm out. Maybe I should change my clothes before I meet up with my friends. Things like showers and appearance simply just fall out of priority around midterms. It happens. It's Friday. What do you expect?!

Love.