notes from underground

One last final paper later, and I’m done. It feels… wonderful.

Starting on Friday I ended up on a vaguely nocturnal schedule, ending up at Louie’s around 6 or 7 both Saturday and Sunday. There’s something very satisfying about eating a really good bacon cheeseburger with a coke at 6am… Louie’s is great, I love the low prices and the people that work there are really friendly most of the time. It reminds me a little of Sonny’s, a breakfast restaurant in North Carolina with a similar community atmosphere (Robby, the guy who runs Sonny’s, knows our family even though we’re only there once in a blue moon); however, Louie’s has that college-town atmosphere that is so unique. We went in at 6am on a saturday, with finals looming… not only did I run into four or five people I knew, but the place was PACKED!

I did not take full advantage of my sleep schedule, I’m afraid. Where I probably should have spent the long hours with few distractions churning out my paper, I split them up between research and writing and less academic things like RF Online. Saturday was weird too, because Techhouse was going to have a dance party, which means I always end up being less productive than I’d like while I mess with music and try to figure out a playlist. The party itself was really, really fun, despite a major technical issue: the speakers stopped working around midnight, about halfway through the stuff I’d wanted to play. Grr, but now I have an even stronger case to support my big-speaker budget proposal next spring.

I left town tuesday, after marathoning my Philosophy paper Sunday night/Monday morning. On Monday I crashed around 11:15, after handing in my paper, then woke up when Dee came by around 6:45. I’d planned to go to a movie with Dan Byers and Dan Erickson, but I slept through it… when Dee came by I finally dragged myself out of bed and went to Jo’s, then made a Ratty run to snag a to-go box stuffed to the brim with mozarella cheese. One visit to the minimart later, and the nacho party was ready!

Albert and Katie came by for said nacho party during a break in their crazy 6-hour Genetics study session, then went back to the sci-li. I hung out around techhouse and once more failed to sleep, as I ended up staying up all night packing and talking to people. Oh well. My flight was around 4pm, so I got to say goodbye to Katie after her exam, and give her the presents I’d gotten her. Much fun! She got me an Edward Gorey wall calendar, it’s amazing.

I’m down here in North Carolina now, staying at our house in the mountains until the 30th. It feels wonderful to relax for once… I’ll plan for next semester to have a lighter course load, I think, or I will go insane!