A day in the life of...

Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

I spent nine hours in the library today doing work with almost no interruptions. For the last half hour I was getting so restless that I was basically jumping up and down in my chai until finally I realized I have to leave or I will go insane. Unfortunately I didn't cover all the material I had to for the day. Isn't that insane? Parsing algorithms for syntax analysis, 200 pages of literary criticism of Evgeni Onegin (first of three books down and I have to write the essay tomorrow!?!), 275 pages of calculus covering material that took me two years to learn and which I haven't used since high school... When. Does. It. End?

Answer: On Friday. Well, the math part does anyway. The culmination of this Hellish week that started today will be the 4 hour exam on Friday morning. Although I guess technically I will have to start reading "A Hero of Our Time" immediately after the exam is done if I don't want to get behind on my work. Oxford is so much fun :D

In other somewhat related news, I spent most of my weekend following the adventures of Jack Bauer through his first longest day. I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the show (which is not to say it's actually good but still...) One thing I learned from the show, however, is that I must be a terrorist. Maybe I don't realize it yet but, as one of my new favourite quotes says, "Jack Bauer can torture you into giving up information you do not possess."

Anyway, I have to go to sleep now so I can wake up even earlier tomorrow and spend even more time studying. Life is fun :D

http://www.notrly.com/jackbauer/index.php?topthirty - the only thing that has made me laugh in the last week.