Three hours just ain't enough

Because it was so traumatic, I'll keep this portion short: my group had to present a journal article for our topics in micro class. We divided up the paper. I read that bitch for hours. I was up till 3AM last night working on my part of the presentation, and awake again at 6AM to work some more on it. Our presentation was at 12PM. Generally, presentations last till 12:40PM. At 1PM, we were hadn't even reached the conclusion (my part of the article yet). So my part comes, I rush it, and ignore the outline I spent hours organizing. I babble, I don't treat things as thoroughly as I should. And I'm lucky if my portion of the talk lasted ten minutes. Nothing so unrewarding as working your ass off and then having nothing to show for it.

But at least I have the wisdom these days (what little of it) to say, "Hey, Amber, it's not important." Which is utterly true. One stupid paper presentation for a one-hour credit course is not even close to important. What's important?

Well, my APEX presentation, for one thing. For those of you who don't know, the APEX presentation is the senior seminar of the biology department, where I present the work I did over the summer. I was freaking out about it for many days recently. I realized that, shit, I have less than a month to work on it, two weekends of which I'll be out of town. Shit. Hell no. I think I can accredit my bad mood to this in part. I was walking with Dave one night, and suddenly the thought occurred to me: I COULD DO MY APEX IN THE SPRING. I thought it would be impossible to change my APEX date, but lo and behold in one day I had completely removed one gigantic responsibility from my schedule. So now I can just worry aboutGRE's, Grad School, and Physics. That's quite enough thank you.

Ok, now for the short, random, leftover thoughts:
1) EVERYONE IS ILL
Is is just me, or is everyone on campus sick, dying, or on a slow recovery?
2)ALICE ROCKS THE HOUSE
3)I'm taking Dave home for Oktoberfest at Oglebay Park this weekend. I'm excited, because I'll get to show him off and take him all over Oglebay to see all my favorite spots. Geesh, this sounds very selfish, but then again I'm going to Eerie with him the weekend after that! SO THERE
4) JET SET RADIO FUTURE IS THE BEST GAME I"M CURRENTLY OBSESSED WITH. My character moves so fast she blurs. YES
5) Jiu Jitsu is getting better
6)Skeletor (my gecko) is staring at me, and it's freaking me out

PEACE! LOVE! and SLEEEEP!