Tuesday, 24 April 2007

necessary evils

Today I felt like I was in the twilight zone or something, and it had nothing to do with the hoards of moths that out of nowhere seemed to be plaguing the streets on mass last night. (It was raining heavily through the night and so this morning the roof was covered in little pools, filled with delicate moths wings.)

No, today was the first day of my midterm exams. Given that I haven't had an exam type exam in three years, it was a bit of a bizarre novelty. Exams, however, have never been one of my strong points, I either do really shockingly or amazingly, and it has no logical correlation with the amount of studying I do (the best results in my highers were in exams I never studied for, and the ones I should have done well at, I crashed and burned.) I wasn't looking forward to them as I had no idea what to expect, not even how much weighting different questions were given. So, I headed to the first one (I had two back to back) sat down in the funny old school style chair/desk things and just did it. It felt exactly like being back in primary school. Very strange.

The jog tonight was pretty hard going (combination of heavy rain and post-exam tiredness) but it felt great to unwind, and to do something other than think.


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