A Roller Coaster

OOHHHH THE PAST 24 HOURS!

It's official: Block 2 nearly killed me. The tests? ehhh, they're done. The lack of sleep? Kill me.

Current score: Sleep 1, Catharine 0

This is what happened.

As I said earlier we have 2 exams on Monday and 2 on Tuesday. So inevitably the first 2 exams put you through the ringer and you go home to 12 hours of cramming last minute studying for the next 2. Well, smart one over here stayed up 'til 2 am studying on Tuesday morning. I set my phone alarm for 5, I set my alarm clock for 5:04, and (just to cover my bases) I set my phone to continue to go off from 5 until 7:30 at 15 minute intervals. I knew I was tired but it's grad school and my body knows that so it will push through, right? Wrong.

Cut to 8:45 (STINKIN' EIGHT FORTY FIVE!!!) this morning. I wake abruptly to my sister-in-law standing over me saying that it's EIGHT FORTY FIVE and she and my brother will drive me to class and I just need to get dressed. Good thing my classmates have already been taking the exam for 45 minutes. Holy mack. Anyway, HALLELUJAH I have the best SIL in the world and she noticed that my car was still in the driveway when they were leaving for class and she came and woke me up. My brother got us from Mt. P to downtown in record time and my SIL gave me her coffee (seriously, a gift of gold!) and they had some random cereal in a ziploc so I ate that and with their encouragement and a seriously good coffee in my belly I was able to face walking into a silent room of 66 people in the midst of the hardest block exam--oh it was painful making eye contact with those people. Anyway, my professor was so kind and let me have the full 2 hours though I in no way deserved it!

Then I again holed up until 2pm pacing with my little notecards (that I have begun to tear in half because the demand  is pretty high these days and it could bankrupt me) and listening to my white noise app (another Godsend). After that I ran down to grab a healthy lunch of Nekot crackers from the vending machine with the 60 cents I was able to scrounge from the bottom of my bag (I forgot my wallet in the chaos this morning), and then it was on to my Pharmacotherapeutics exam. And now I. AM. DONE. (with block 2).

A little group project meeting action and some $3 margarita and taco action and a brief break to catch up on DWTS from last night (That freestyle? The one to that ever so teeny-bopperish song "Call Me Maybe?" Ah-mazing!! [Please go YouTube it. If you're into that kind of thing.])  I am now back at home with Mims asleep by my side and, having done the reading for the lecture tomorrow (for BLOCK 3. . . Way too soon...), I'm going to set 50 alarms and catch a few winks.

Mims says "Goodnight!"