PEOPLE, LET'S GET EXCITED

We're into the last two weeks of term. I'm getting a bit stressed. I have a project due on Monday and another big assignment is due next Friday. Five days later, I have my first final exam.

No one else here at SJC seems to be feeling the stress. The problem is that most of my friends here are in their second year or later of their graduate degrees. That means their coursework is all done, and December is just another month in their research or thesis-writing.

To me, December is crunch month, just like it was in undergrad. That's what I get for enrolling in a pure coursework based graduate degree.

So while people are chilling out, watching movies, and relaxing at night, I have to remember I need to go full-out in the next couple of weeks before I can take it easy.

My last exam is on the 11th of December. The SJC Holiday dinner is on the 10th. I always have luck like this. One day more and I could have really enjoyed the dinner. There's no question that I'll go to the dinner, but I'll probably have to excuse myself from the post-dinner festivities.

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HOT WATER

I'd like everyone to know that I enjoy a nice cup of hot water. Just hot water. I'm not sure when I discovered I liked drinking hot water, it's been at least five years or so.

Over the years, I've discovered that not a lot of people share the same desire for a steaming mug of hot water. People would ask me, "Is that hot water? You're drinking just hot water?"

When my parents started to notice my fondness for hot water, they called me an "old man". Just recently, my friend Rhonda noticed I was drinking a cup of hot water and she too called me an "old man". I asked her if she had talked to my parents lately. She reminded me that they've never met.

People drink cold water everyday without questions, why not hot water? It's hot, soothing, and let's you stay hydrated. Why is it that when you boil a pot of water, you have to add something to it? Why not forgo the teabag or coffee and just drink, natural, sparkling hot water? It's delicious!

At the 3:30am, I think I'll make a pot now!

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