The time of my life

As you can tell from the lack of posts this week, I am having the time of my life.

The time of my life began when I left a very snowy State College, fearing that my bus trip would have to be postponed to the next day or worse, but instead the bus cruised right out of the snowstorm and reached Massachusetts a half hour before scheduled time. Without skipping a beat, my parents took advantage of this and took me to a Christmas party at Sindhu's place in Westford. I for one was ready to fall asleep after having been continuously sleep deprived for four days, but enjoyed seeing Sindhu, Ramya, Sushmita, and fellow college goers Shruti, Praneetha and Prashanth before beginning our three week break.

Over the next few days, I completed my christmas shopping for friends and family members by day and hung out with school buddies by night. On Christmas Eve, I went to a party at Nikhil's place and saw more Telugu pals, witnessed a Yankee Swap for the dads, and gave Praneetha her gift (a sexy leather jacket in which she looks smashing).
On Christmas day, I went to Nipunn's place with my family for lunch. Had a great time.
And the following day, we had a party in our own house for some more friends. We hosted a Yankee Swap, an awesome cookie decoration competition, and the infamous group mafia!! I have some pictures.

The Yankee Swap

MAFIA

The Great Cookie Decorating Competition (This is just one of the many trays)

Yesterday the fam and I went to see Avatar in the movie theaters! It is really something. There have been very few movies in the past few years that have not at least slightly disappointed me when I came out of the theater. Avatar is one such. It's a rather simple and unoriginal storyline, but it really makes a connection with the audience. Of course, the visuals are just stunning. I'm looking forward to watching it again in IMAX.

And today, I had a very exciting, tiring, and slightly painful day as my dad took me and Vishnu to Nashoba for fun on the slopes. I snowboarded for the first time in my life. Boy, it is hard. It's harder than skiing because once both your feet are strapped in, they cannot move, even as you plummet down the mountain at 40 mph. The only directional control you have is from alternatively angling your board with the toes and heels. I'm still terrible at snowboarding, but when you get it right, it's such a rush. I want to go back soon, but I'll probably stay home tomorrow since I'm sore and may have twisted my ankle.


Well that's all. I'm sure the time of my life will only continue when I go to New York City in a few days!! Of course I will write all about it.

Keepin' it real,
Sowmya

Awesome.

I am so happy right now, I can blog!

In less than six hours, I will have finished my last final exam of the semester! But the reason why I am so happy is because this week was supposed to terrible, but I pwned it! I will explain.

I basically had the worst final schedules ever: 4 exams at 8 AM from Monday to Thursday and then another one on Tuesday afternoon. I was angry about this. And then a few days ago, I contracted a head cold after having one less than two weeks ago. Damn cold virus (I had actually just read about how it's impossible to find a cure for the cold while I was studying Immunology...funny how things work). I showed up at my 8AM Immunology exam in stupid Keller building (located all the way on the other side of campus) with a headache and blocked sinuses. After that was done I really wanted to just go to sleep, but of course, I had to tutor physics 250 for two hours. It was raining. I walked to McLanahan's to buy medicine and Vanilla Chai only to find that they were all out of Vanilla Chai. By the time I got back to my room, my shoes were soaked. It was basically a terrible morning. After sleeping for about 4 hours, I had to get up and start studying for math and physics.

The next day, I attended my math exam at 8 AM, which seemed to go fine except for this one problem which resulted in factoring of this equation. Calculators were not allowed and I did not know that 92 was divisible by 4 (come on, it was 8 in the morning). I fell asleep after that test but then had to yank myself out of bed to take my physics exam at 4:40. Everything was going fine during physics until I dropped my calculator on the floor. It stopped working. As you already know, I can't do mental math! Everything was going terribly. I was sleep deprived and sitting before a physics final exam with sniffles and a broken calculator.


And then, like a switch was flipped, everything got better! My left sinus cleared up. The annoying song that was stuck in my head finally went away. And then with five minutes left, my calculator turned on! I finished the rest of my physics test and bounded out the door. The next morning, I had Astronomy. And it was so cool because my Professor gave me a gift!! It's this digital sky viewing software and she gave it to me for answering all her challenge questions! How cool is that! Dr. Kregenow is a G.

I watched Animal Planet for a few hours, went to sleep, and woke up at 1 AM (today). It was clear that I had been severely sleep deprived thanks to final exams and congestion. And then I saw that I got an A in physics and immunology! I feel so much better now, even though I still have another test to take.


And just now, I found out that I can breathe normally again! This is so great

*Cries*

Believe it or not, I have like THREE drafts for a new blog post but I couldn't find something engaging enough to write about. Therefore, I have decided to stop caring. Hear me pine:

I have diagnosed myself with senioritis. As I sit in Atherton computer lab with my Immunology textbook before me, sipping Wild Cherry Pepsi (non-coffee source of caffeine), kicking myself for not starting to study sooner, hoping that I can be reborn as a sea sponge, I have never felt so in need of a long break. I am also tutoring my psuknowhow students several hours a day, but that's to be expected since it's finals week. I think I'm going to know physics 250 better than I know my own subjects :P

However,
There are gifts to be bought.
TV shows to be caught up on.
Cookies to be baked. Er, burned.
Snow angels to be made.
Christmas parties to be attended.
Time to be wasted.

I'm going to New York City for New Years (!) but having to wait until the semester ends is becoming more and more difficult. I don't think I'll make it.

Bai