When I Look at the Stars

I see someone else / When I look at the stars / I feel like myself. (Switchfoot)

My camera is far from the best, and the lights of the tower across of hours will never turn off at night, so this here picture of our Christmas lights isn't that great. Our decorations are kind of loud and obnoxious, hehe, in playful competition with Matt's. =D It was quite a task hanging these up, and I discovered that painter's tape won't stick to the window, so we put that roll of clear packing tape I bought to use. It was nice yesterday, just using it as the only light, doing math homework and chatting and all. It created a great ambiance (the word Claire used - my vocabulary in day-to-day life is still severely lacking). It'll definitely brighten up the 24 hour quiet hours, which go into effect tomorrow night.

Today was the last day of MWF classes. It came pretty quickly, meh? I did learn a lot in Hawaiian Studies and Anthropology. Not that what I'm going to learn is necessarily all going to stick, but they did both leave me with different perspectives. Organic Chem.... Still has my mind reeling and going in loops. Repetition. That is what studying has become for me. Lots of repetition. Its why my thoughts pretty much go nowhere, now, and I can't take things in new directions. My mind is stuck going round and round over and over again, breaking and forming epoxide and cyclic bromonium ions without end, hehe.

And can you believe it? Tomorrow is the last day of actual classes for us! Oh, great, my last class of this semester is math. What joy ^^;; The last class I'll actually be in, though, is chemistry. Yay for a Friday exam. Gotta get all the time to study that you can, eh?

Registration this morning was stressful, but in the end, it all went well. I will post up next semester's schedule later. I'm glad the lady in the Spanish Department office that I've talked to on the phone is so nice. I'm sorry to have bothered her again.

I should try taking a running start for these exams. Crossing fingers and aiming for the finish line! Taking some "breaks" along the way, of course, to snack and get fatter, and challenge my mind more with Blokus, or Tetris, and some other things. Which somehow reminds me, I need to return all these library books at some point. That's kind of an issue, hahaha. That large pile is still there, minus my brown-paper-bag-covered textbook.

Half of the Pocky, 1.5 bottles of Calpico, the 4 mini-breads w/cream custard inside, 4 out of 6 of the little bread snack thing that Becca likes, and 3/4 a bar of melon Hi-Chew are gone. Ohohoho. Yay for sweet, pretty, easy-to-share foods from Nijiya. Also, Annie and Megan bought me a package of strawberry/orange/green apple Hi-Chews, too XD. Yay sweetness!

I'll take a while to just stare at the star and breathe.

Stars looking at a planet / Watching entropy and pain / And maybe start to wonder / How the chaos in our lives could  pass as sane...