long days past, short ahead

the day felt long today. it hardly feels that it was just about this time period last night when eliza was cheong-ing for her last exam, tiffoo was basking in her self-declared freedom from having completed her 1 "important" exam and val was the free-est one of all sitting with her blue box of construction paper making name cut-outs. in between, i have bought my domestic flight ticket to LA airport, taken my anthro exam, we have gone to buckley for lunch, val and i went to get my printer down from my room in hilltop, we drew a snowman & xmas tree in the snow on the way back, took pictures inc. with the statue of the husky, stayed out too long in the cold until val got frostbitten, i had a bout of pretty bad cramps, watched private practice instead of working on 1 of my 2 papers due tomorrow, moaned and napped in eliza's, woke up went down and moaned and curled up in tiffoo's, did snack attack and i ate chocolate pudding and felt a bit happier, eliza came back from camping in the library supposedly to do her paper but she ended up not doing it then, got a hot water bottle to ease cramps, took a pink pill as a last resort, got some work done, napped in val's lounge after val has gone in to sleep (8am exam tomorrow) while tiffoo and eliza are going strong and i can barely open my eyes anymore yet neither of my papers are done. this is where i am now.

the day felt long today, but the day ahead has never felt shorter. after tonight (it's 2am so technically tonight might be almost over), i have 1 last night here and then it's goodbye to uconn. the school i've adopted as my own these past few months, whose campus i've come to know and enjoy and whose dining halls have been a site of numerous joyful gatherings with good friends and good food. adieu, farewell, au revoir! kaitlin just strolled into the lounge to say goodbbye to us in case she doesn't see us tomorrow, and casey came in here earlier and said just about that too and julia came in asking for a last meal together for lunch tomorrow and it's amazing how this is such a final goodbye to all the people we've made friends with here at mcmahon global house. SAD.