today is the last day of classes! i am delirious with typing stupid papers! i dribble coffee down my chin every morning because my lips go numb! and as soon as i turn this awful paper in at noon, i will go mad with beer.

things that have made the past three days bearable:

-the presence of my co-author, andrew, who has gone just as loopy as i have so we find each other very entertaining.
-the presence of julie and jamie, who just left this morning (sad face) after visiting me on their expedition to denver.
-the fact that julie and jamie's trip was less about chicago and more about apparently seeing as much pride & prejudice as possible. we went to the theater to see the new version (despite me having seen it twice already, once with classmates and once with kriston on a near-empty late-night showing on thanksgiving evening), then jamie had never seen the six-hour version, so we watched at least 2/3 of that while drinking spiked hot chocolate.
-the trip to the liquor store to buy the mint schnapps for the hot chocolate, where the cashier asked us what movie we were watching, and somehow took the cue of us saying "pride & prejudice" to launch into his retelling of the story of jane eyre, which went something like this: "girl is poor. girl meets guy. girl leaves guy. girl gets rich, goes back, now guy loves her." i was like, uh, you might have missed some subtle plot points there.
-72 pumpkin spice lattes. starbucks owns my soul.
-the fact that tommy scored me A BUTTERSTICK TICKET FOR WHEN I GO HOME NEXT WEEK. and you know what? I'M GOING TO EAT HIM. BECAUSE I AM PART CHINESE. SERIOUSLY. YUM.