March 11

Long days don't always have to be bad days...

Today was a mixture of good and bad, really.

Totally a typical Tuesday at times, but not too terrible.

First, I woke up at around 4 am to study for Chemistry... This was the exam that I was most worried about because I have around an 85% in that class, and I'm just not good at it.

So, I woke up, made myself an omlette, and then literally studied from then until class... which wasn't until 10:20.

Luckily, I think it paid off.

I'm not sure if I got an A on the test, but I at least got a solid high B, and there's a possibility that I even got an A.

I have a very strange brain, and for some reason I can cram and entire month worth of material into my brain if I study for 6 hours straight...

Unfortunately, getting up that early and stressing/studying that much tends to affect how well I perform on the soccer field, and although I didn't play terribly today it was rough.



Everyone is a little stressed right now, and by the time practice was over I'd been yelled at so much I was close to a mental breakdown.

So, how did I cope?

Well first I was going to play some extra pickup soccer with some of the club soccer boys (since that's one of my favorite things to do), but then I realized as I sat there that I was WAY too dead for that.

Plus it was another gorgeous day, and Cave Run Lake is so close to our campus...


SO! My friend Kameron and I decided to go fishing.

We unfortunately did not catch anything, although I didn't really expect to... I was too lazy to buy worms so we just used a couple of little lures that I had.

I'm more of a stick a worm on a hook, toss it in the water and wait kind of fisherman... lures are too much work.

Still, it was fun, and we stayed and watched the sunset.

The sky was ridiculously clear (as you can see in the picture of Kam), so as the sun went down it was pretty, but the pictures didn't come out as good since there weren't any clouds to refract the rays and make all sorts of colors.

Being at the lake was a much needed break today regardless... I've got two more midterms and then I can call this week over!

My exam tomorrow is Geography, by the way, and I already have a solid A in there (hence why I let myself relax for a few hours after practice and went to the lake).

Still, I want to get an A on the midterm so I can keep my solid A, so I'm sure I'll be waking up ridiculously early once again tomorrow to study.

Everybody has there own study methods, and the most successful students are those who figure out what works for them...

My method just happens to be procrastination combined with extremely long periods of straight studying.


AKA frequent early morning cram sessions...

How I don't just give up after an hour or two is a mystery to me.

Anyway, after the lake and after we got back on campus, I started getting REALLY hungry, and I really wasn't in the mood to cook something (it had already been a long day).

So, I slipped up. I ate the absolutely delicious pretzels and queso seen below, and it was great.

Not great for my body, but it was great.

Before that though, I had a very typical Tuesday type moment when I just casually went to the drink machine to get some water, and as I got ice, I managed to break the ice part, and ice would not stop flowing out of it.


It took three buckets before it was done, plus all that was left in the catching part you can see above... and I'm assuming it only stopped because all of the ice came out.

Also, I was at Wingspan alone, and everyone saw me struggling with the avalanche of ice cubes...

So yes, today was definitely a Tuesday, and my superstition that Tuesdays are the worst day of the week continues!