I'm crashing... I am so tired, have a pounding headache... my back, shoulders, and neck are all sore and tight with tension... my eyes ache... but I have to keep reading.

I have been going through various states of panic today... tomorrow I will be taking my lasers final. It is cumulative, four questions in length, and 40% of my grade. I have spent most of the day reading the book. The topics are finally starting to sink in. I have been going to every lecture with only the slightest clue as to how all of the information fit together, it is finally starting to mesh, now, less than 12 hours before the final. I set a lofty study goal for this evening that I don't think I will reach. However, I at least to get my laser amplifier chapter before bed.

Tomorrow, I am hoping that I will get up early in the morning. Who knows if I will with how off my sleep schedule has been this week. Get some coffee in my system and something bland for breakfast. Meet Matt to work problems and bounce questions off one another in one of the classrooms next to our lab. Take the final. Hopefully score average or better. Head home, finish last minute packing. Catch a ride to the airport, then off to Chicago.

Oh and the hotmail problem has been fixed. Thank you to everyone who emailed me while it was down. It was great fun to be able to see that I had email, who the email was from, when it was received, and not be able to access the actual text of the mail. You know who you are.