So I've survived the first two days. My oral defense of the answers is Friday morning at 9. I would like here to publicly thank my mother for taking away the "stupid" from Tony and I for the past couple of mornings and taking it all for herself - methinks it has helped.
Nunk caught a mouse and kept toying with it Monday night - it took me about 15 minutes to get it away from her. It was really funny but irritating timing-wise because I was all ready to go to bed freakishly early (still in the 10 oclock hour) and this kept me up until about 11 (I got wired and couldn't relax). That's the second mouse this semester. I wish I knew where they were getting in - the cats love it but I feel bad for the mice...
Other than that, I'm exhausted already beyond normal, and have reached a stress level over the first two days of testing that has led to jaw clenching during the night so bad that I can barely chew right now because my teeth hurt excruciatingly badly.
I get tomorrow off to pour through my answers, figure out where all I screwed up/left openings/holes/how to fit in Chaucer because I spent a fucking long time studying Chaucer and can't believe that in a Medieval comprehensive exam Chaucer literally couldn't be fit in anywhere... the stupid thing was that most of my exams were on Arthurian romance in various forms and I was convinced I wouldn't get any questions on that because Kate already knows I know them (else I wouldn't have been teaching her class at times last semester), so anyway I didn't review them and felt like I was falling into lots of memory lapses - i.e. I couldn't remember anything about the Roman de la Rose other than that it's a dream vision that features a guy who falls in love with a particularly lovely rose on a bush. (Yeah, he falls for a flower. The great thing about this is how obvious it makes the idea that love is all about the guy - all the woman has to do is be the appropriately lovely object. Thank God I don't live then - I wouldn't have patience for that. I think I'd be a nun.)
Will update Friday when this is all over with and I can move on to fun and thinking about the Kalamazoo trip next week (!!!!!!). I'm going to eat dinner and go take a really f---ing long bubble bath.
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is it over, is it over, is it over?????
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