Is it Really Just Thursday?

My God, this has been the longest week ever. Well, that's not really true. It's not as long as the many, many weeks I spent working 8-5 in a mailroom. Those were longer weeks. But we as human beings have short attention spans, and that was all the way back in July. So as far as I can remember, this has been the longest week ever. Thursday. And not even the end of the day on Thursday either. It's not even noon.

Well, at least I'm finally done with the bulk of my work for the week. In the last two and a half weeks I've had four tests and two papers. As I said earlier, midterm is a terrible time of year. On the bright side, the last of those tests and papers was yesterday, so now I'm pretty much smooth sailing until the end of the semester, which will be even more cluttered, of course.

I must say, the test yesterday was surprisingly difficult. Well, I guess difficult's not really the right word. I knew the material and could answer any of the questions with my eyes closed. Well, as long as someone read the questions to me, that is. The problem was, we were expected to write two essays in fifty minutes. This is why I think it's ridiculous to have tests in English courses. Really English courses should be all paper-based. It's impossible to write two decent, insightful papers about five authors in fifty minutes. It simply cannot be done. I write ridiculously fast (and this is not idle boasting, I always finish tests early) and I found myself struggling to squeeze in a second essay. So, of course, my first essay was good but overly general, and my second essay was crap. Fortunately, I'm my worst critic, so there's still a chance that I'll get a good grade. In English courses, I always get better grades than I would give myself. So I've got my fingers crossed. My hope hinges on the fact that if I, writing as fast as I do, couldn't write a decent test in the period, the rest of the class's tests couldn't have been any better. Hopefully, my teacher will be reasonable enough not to give us all bad grades because the period was too short and his questions were (ridiculously) general.

I won't go in to any more specifics, because I guess that would be cheating or something, I think. Not that I think anyone reading this will be taking that test in the near future, but the last thing I need is to be kicked out of school for not being careful. Let's just leave it at this: how specific and insightful can you be about a story/book if you have ten minutes to write by hand about it?

Keep in mind, I'm completely insane when it comes to anxiety about test results. Until I get these two papers and one test back, I'll be freaking out twenty-four-seven. Which is funny, because usually I have nothing to worry about. I'm even more frantic right now because I also am still waiting on a major quiz score from two weeks ago. I must say, I like multiple choice tests; you get the results back much faster.

Good news, though, is that the baseball playoffs have started. Even if my beloved Braves booted their chances to get in for the second year in a row due to a terrible bullpen and mediocre starting pitching, I still get excited when the second season starts. And I must say, Beckett was ridiculous for the BoSox last night. I hate the Sox, but I love great pitching. It'll be interesting to see what Dice-K has in game two. If he pitches like he did in the first half of the season and not like he did in the second half, the Sox'll be hard to beat. Tonight'll be great, though, to see Sabathia go up against that Yankees lineup. OK, I'll let ya'll go now. Go Titans. If we can't beat Atlanta this weekend, then we should be kicked out of the NFL.