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The worst of this sem at nie is thankfully over. Wednesday was when two of the biggest remaining thingies for the sem were handed in, and now all that lies between now and a couldn't-be-more-welcomed break is a handful of smaller thingies of minimal consequence. Ok, not really of minimal consequence, but it sure feels that way after the load that came off my back on wed. But still, the biggest thing left before school ends for me is the usual pre-b'day ippt that i somehow have to find the capability within me to clear.

As is ever so typical for pieces of work that i've to do, i started doing the work later than i'd have wanted to, got heavily distracted over the process of doing it, and thus overshot my target for finishing it. I had intended to finish everything by tuesday night, so i could have an early night and wake up bright and early the next morning to catch the election results before leaving for school as late as possible to print the stuff and then go for class at 1:30pm. However, over the course of the days leading up to wednesday i had gotten distracted by several things, among them playing more mindless facebook games and surfing numerous sites for reports from the campaign trail.

So the net result of all of this was that i only went to sleep at around 4am early wed morning, and still not having finished my work by then (and that came as no surprise, considering how many times i switched the tv on to CNN etc to see how things were going). Woke up again two hours later, though the first thing i did was turn on the tv again, rather than finish up the last bits of my work. The next five to six hours or so were spent valiantly attempting to multi-task, something that i am notoriously bad at doing (observe me trying to pray while playing guitar, for example) - shifting between doing the last bits of the two big pieces of work and checking out the sometime bizarre (they 'beamed' people into the studio, a la Star Trek; after which they appeared as holograms, even though they were in a totally different location, like Princess Leia - and lost focus from the actual elections at times as a result) coverage of election night. But well thankfully things came together in the end (where both things are concerned), and i left for nie just before 12.

Think all that last-min work plus the making sense of the election results exercised the little grey cells a bit too much though, cos my brain was honestly not working properly for the rest of the day, save for the presentation, by God's grace.

Well, anyways, hopefully i won't be resorting to these tactics again any time soon, which methinks is likely - hard to think of an event that can distract me as much as giant political events (hmm but that may not be the case after all, now that i've discovered that i can view whole episodes of the Daily Show and the Colbert Report online, to add on to the snl skits). Methinks am getting too old to pull these half-nighters anymore (all-nighters are all but impossible). Already, it feels weird to not have anything much to monitor on the various websites and telly coverages (there just seems to be a lot of people crying when i catch the latter).

Anyways, will talk more about the actual results another time. I ought to go to sleep. Got one teeny class tomorrow -which means another round of spending more time travelling to and from nie than actually being there. *thinks positive thoughts*