Good circumstantial day today.

School is like a very skewed normal distribution. *smile* That's really an ignorant statement, because there is--I'm sure--a distribution that fits what I see in my mind, but I don't know it. Picture the normal distribution as a bell-shaped curve. And when it's skewed, it just means that the high point of the bell is shifted over to one side or the other.

School starts slowly, builds throughout the term, until it's all craziness. But then the craziness gives way the end of dead week, and the pressure begins to relent. Finals week comes along, and the pressure is off, in a way. Yeah, there's pressure to do well on your exams, but it's a different kind of pressure than the pounding constant of assignments and projects and papers. And then, as finals week dawns, gradually you pick them off, one by one. There's less and less to do, and you feel lighter and lighter (literally, too, if you now find time to work out...hahahaha!). Then it's done and it feels wonderful.

But, folks, what really made my day today is that I'm now a scholarship recipient! I'd given up on this one, that I had applied for in April, but dad finally gave me this envelope that had been sitting on his desk for a week. And it was a congratulations letter. It's so cool. I just smiled. Couldn't help but do that. Made little exclamations. Didn't jump around or yell, but very happy nonetheless.

Ahem, I've been praying for financial stuff, though like I said, I'd given up on this one.