That’s it. My first term at college is officially over. I’m heading home today after my last final at noon. This week…. this week. What do I say? I have gone from rock bottom to being the happiest I have been in a long time. It has been hell to say the least, but cumulative tests and term-end projects do tend to be buzz kills. I was lucky. I only had one written final this term. That’s how my week started. It didn’t go well. I’m pretty sure I bombed it. I wallowed for a good portion of the evening.

That night, I was helping my friend with a project that we had for our English class, and discovered that there were free snacks in the cafeteria for a study break. [I’m a sucker for free food] A group of us went down and ended up talking about the most random subjects. They included: Native American Children’s Stories, cable TV, stealing each other’s iTunes, root beer, identity theft, crazy RA’s, and many other things that should not be repeated.

After a delicious snack of [free] nachos, we returned to the English project. Here is where a nice night of studying turned into story worth repeating. For some reason we allowed ourselves to be taped into the room in which we were working. We knew what was going on, but choose to close the door and hope for it not to happen. If I may say, Ignorance is not Bliss.

To the right is the work in process with its creator. Steve labored many minutes on his masterpiece. Little did he know that I intended to destroy it in one pounce. After many minutes of careful deliberation with Melony (wearing the pink), we plotted our escape. Some say that I lunged through the tape like a tiger on the savanna. Others claim that I flew through with the grace of a baby hippo. Whoever you believe, we escaped.

I was ready to call it a night, but the night kept calling me. I was ignorantly unaware that Hairspray came out on DVD on Tuesday. A midnight run to Meijer later, and then we were all watching a movie until late into the night.

All of this in ONE DAY. I can barely believe it. A depressing Monday morning and afternoon nearly had me considering what schools I could transfer to after I lost my scholarships. And by that night, I had laughed more than I have in many many weeks. Now fall term and finals week is over, no more, done, complete, and concluded. I can’t wait for the new year and the new term.

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