Latin time...not nearly as fun as Hammer Time

Today is Latin. Then I'm done. I'm going to stick with the plan and stay as long as necessary - the full three hours if that's what's required. I'll go slowly, think it all through and hope for the best.

When I'm done I'll come home, curl up on the couch and nap. And forget this week ever happened... ha ha.

Can I has a do-over?

That was a pretty awful experience. My Greek exam was this morning and while I felt really strong and confident going in...and on the first page....I was crushed by the end. I took the entire three hours (as did nearly all of the class) and in the last minutes I was frantically scribbling down answers. I answered all the questions, but the completeness of my answers is questionable - I didn't have time to review, I didn't have time to really make sense of the last four translations. It was pretty awful.

I'm bummed about this, but I've got to forget about it because I have Latin tomorrow. Here's to the end of a hopefully successful semester (passing is good, failing is bad).

Looming

My Greek exam is tomorrow. Aside from being nervous and anxious about this I'm ok. I'm still going to spend all night studying because I know that is the responsible thing to do, but so many things have been clarified for me in my studying that I know if I take my time and work things out during the exam I'll be ok.

Ideally I'd like to be better than ok, but given my state the last month, I'll settle for ok and come back in January looking for great.

My goal for tomorrow: take the full three hours and really give my answers consideration. With some extra thought and logic (which stem is that? what case are we in here?) I can be far more certain about my answers than just stabbing wildly hoping I understand the gist of the sentence. That is not translating, that is floundering. I do not want to flounder (those are ugly fish!).

Alright.

I haven't been doing very well. I think that much is clear...I'm generally only silent for two reasons: things are great and I'm too busy to update, or things are shit and I'm too hesitant to commit them to type. So things have been harder going than I expected. My depression (which I've not spoken about but will make mention of now) was making day-to-day functioning difficult earlier in the month, but my dosage has been changed and I feel more capable of handling things through a series of coping methods. All I have to say is thank goodness for Molly Dog. She makes sure I get up and out of bed at a reasonable time so that she can be walked. Sometimes it takes those little steps.

I'm gearing up for exams right now. They're on the 12th and 13th. So really, this is the homestretch and I'll use my Christmas break to get my groove back. It's only one year, I can do this.