Jess is home from Australia. She arrived back last night. I wasn't planning on seeing her until after I had finished all of my finals but she called this morning as I was rolling out of bed to see if I wanted to have breakfast with her. She was still on Australia time, which meant that 9 a.m. here was 11 p.m. in her head. I don't have a final today and since all I have to do is study and then get my ass to work this afternoon, I felt I could afford to spend an hour or two with her this morning. It felt so good to give her a hug and just sit and listen to her ramble on about her three week vacation. She was so happy. The attitude she displayed this morning was such a 180 degree change from what I have seen from her for the last year that part of me wants to send her back to Australia. She is already thinking about applying to medical schools out there. I told her to go for it. I will miss her a lot but with the technology available today I know we will keep in touch.

I took my first final yesterday morning. It was a bitch of an exam and I really don't know how I did. I can usually tell how well I did on the exam because I know how the professor grades and I know how well I answered the questions. I just don't know what to think about this one. I accurately predicted three of the nine questions but the other six where off-the-wall hard. The exam was open-book, open-notes, so I should have done well but there really is no way to tell until I get my grades next week.

My next final is tomorrow morning. There is no point studying for it. I studied for an entire week for the midterm in this class and it didn't help. Everything I studied was not on the exam. I will most likely just use making my formula sheet as my review and bullshit my way through that final. If I can show this professor my thought process for the question, even if I get it completely wrong, he will still give partial credit. He also curves his grades because no one ever does well on his exams. He's just tough. He expects the best from you but his standard of "the best" is unattainable with an undergraduate student's base of knowledge. The time I don't spend obsessing over tomorrow's final will be spent studying for Thursday's and Friday's finals. Then I am done.

I spoke with Jai yesterday. I am still planning on going to Key West on Sunday. I have decided I am either going alone or I am taking Jai's friend Jenny with me. Amy can't get time off from work and neither can Lori or Jess. I just need to get the hell out of town and away from everyone here. I need to decompress, read for fun, get tan, and get my mind relaxed and ready for the summer of work ahead of me...