Almost, Not Quite

It doesn't always hit you when you schedule classes what the long-term benefits and consequences are. For this spring, my benefits were no exams. None. In all three of my classes.

Of course, you can't have the silver lining without the cloud. And the consequences of no exams is a big load of classwork that almost makes me wish I was taking exams. Almost.

It's not overwhelmingly bad, mind you. I've pretty much narrowed it down to two 'big' assignments left. They are a 10-12 page paper in Vic-Lit about "The Conundrum of Count Fosco" (the primary villain in Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White), and my final journal in Faulkner class. The paper is halfway done, and I'm ten lines deep in my second-to-last section of the journal. I'm thankful to God for giving me strength to get it done step by step.

Of course, the term wouldn't be complete without some kind of nagging problem with my laptop. This time, it has nothing to do with internet, the motherboard, or spyware. It's my power cord. Apparantly, it has begun to suffer from the effects of overuse. Wrapping it up and taking it with me to classes so often has frayed the cable, and its down to the point where you can see the tiny little wires inside. Now I have to push the frayed edges together if I want to maintain full power. Otherwise, it's stuck on battery life. And since time and batteries aren't best friends, I'd rather not head into my final week with a dead laptop. So hopefully I can get this fixed when I take it home.

A big shout-out to my sister and her school friends in New York! Hope you lucky kids are having fun up there. And Anna Kate is currently gone to the beach with her folks. You can just imagine how supremely jealous I am.

That's about all for now! Goodnight and God bless!