This campus sure has a lot of them. Yesterday was a class in which I mostly just straight up studied for midterms next week, aside from the occasional break to goof off and do nothing productive. (The mind needs to take breaks every 30 minutes of studying. I stick to this policy, except I usually shorten it up to every 3 minutes, just to increase the benefits of my study periods by a factor of 10.)
Sadly, yesterday rained a ton and so we had a minor fiasco. Clare left her laptop on the windowsill and forgot about it, so when the rain leaked through the window, her laptop got drenched. We usually leave the window open just because it gets stuffy in our room. I get cold sometimes at night, and I think it's keeping me sort of sick ish, but I feel like it's better than waking up to major stuffiness and being super sweaty.
Clare's laptop is recovered somewhat, but it's struggling somewhat. Last night my laptop decided to stop playing music and start playing noises that sounded somewhat like a dying electronic cow, and then completely cut out all the speakers. I rebooted it and it's working again, but it seems a little like things are just going kaputz around us like flies.
Yesterday we saw fliers up for a meeting at 8 PM, which meant that we had about 12 hours notice before this thing. Right before Midterms. That's right.
The dang meeting went for about 2 hours and mostly covered everything that was already on the handouts they gave us, so I wasn't sure why they had to talk for so dang long. Not only that, but it just sort of dragged. I'm glad we'll be doing cool stuff in Rome and Assisi, but seriously, I started getting really antsy because they turn off the Wifi at 10 PM, and I had studying to do that involved internet research.
By the time the meeting was over we had to crowd around to sign up for the Scavi Tour, which is really popular. It's a tour of the necropolis beneath St. Peter's Basilica which is basically the city of the dead where pagans buried people long ago beneath the hill, an actual city with roads and buildings, which was discovered on accident by workers who were working on the Popes' Crypt which is above the Scavi Necropolis and beneath St. Peter's.
So I'm super excited for that. The rush to the signup board was intense and almost everyone is taller and pushier than me, so I felt kind of squished beneath shoulder blades. Once somebody bumped me and shoved me backwards right into some guy's chest, and his chin hit the top of my head. I hope he didn't bite his tongue. I was getting pretty claustrophobic, so I ditched and Clare was a dear and signed us both up. Seriously, I wish there was some better way to sign up, like a nice online form....
This Rome pilgrimage isn't even for a month. I need to figure out what I'm doing for ten day break, which is coming up soon, and so far I only have 3 days of it planned. Shooooot.
Not only that, but I've had so much class, studying, and other things to do, as well as general just socialization, that I haven't written in weeks. I tried to get some in last night, but it had been so long and it was so late that I couldn't remember where I picked up, so I got a total of two sentences done before I crashed.
So, that's kind of depressing. I'll be glad when I finish school and can focus more on what I love doing, after I come home from whatever job I do have.
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