M to the T to the A: What do you do after the hardest week of life...?

Soooo yeah. Last week: le shitty. Big time. Why you ask? Well maybe it was because I had two midterms, a research paper, an assignment and a quiz! Do you think that's cause for a crappy week? I think so. Gross gross gross.

I honestly don't think I've ever worked so hard in my life. I clocked about 6 hours at the library every day, sometimes more. Not only did I have all that to do, but for one of the classes (Economic Growth, with a midterm and assignment for it) I had absolutely no clue as to what was happening in the class. So, I spent two full days attempting to learn all of the material I didn't understand, and then I ended up knowing it really well. But, lo and behold, none of that stuff was on the test!!!! Baaaaah, of course that would happen. But I have to admit, learning all the math really helped me understand the theory, which was what the test focused on. But man, I was so ready for that math. Poop! Hopefully it went well nonetheless - cross your fingers for me.

And so finally, Friday came, and I was soooo happy. And not only was it Friday, it was planned to be a wicked awesome Friday. My friend Alex (he's the co-social chair of Campbell Hall) was celebrating his 19th birthday on Friday and decided to throw himself a little floor crawl, haha. And on top of that, two of my best friends, Kyle and Colin, came to MTA from UNB to visit and celebrate :) How wicked! The floor crawl was a time warp theme, so I got all decked out in my 80s aerobics instructor outfit and hit the dance floor with great passion. A much needed and well deserved break if you ask me! This is a picture of (back

row) me (yes, I'm a natural blond), Carolyn, Alla, (front row), Sacha and Laurie in our sexy 80s gear for the Campbell Floor Crawl. How much more attractive could you get? Damn, it was so much fun, haha. Here's another one of (back row) Colin (UNB), me, Alex (birthday boy!), Kyle (UNB) and (front row) Mayme (co-president of Campbell Hall). All these lovely people, straight from Campbellton, NB, having a wonderful reunion at Mount A, and in style, might I add.

Now you may think that that sounds so fantastic that it just couldn't get any better than that... Well, not necessarily better, but there was certainly more fun to come! I managed to sleep in until 11:30 on both Saturday and

Sunday (aaaaamazing) and on Saturday afternoon I did... nothing (which was wonderful), followed by a cozy dinner at Joey's with the Campbellton gang (plus Ryan and Niall from Nova Scotia, haha). And then, I spent the evening at Ducky's, a very chill pub in downtown Sackville (yes, I said "downtown Sackville" haha) with my German lab TA, Raphael (on exchange from Marburg, Germany) and ran into some other friends as well. Ahhh, how... nice. And relaxing. And not working. And not in the Library. And yeah. Just not in the Library. I am so, so sick of that place, haha. And well, unfortunately, I'll still be spending a lot of time there this week because I'm now behind on all my readings because of studying for my midterms. And I have a paper proposal for Canadian Federalism due on Friday. Annnnd I haven't started. Boo, why won't work just... stop. For a few days. Just, one or two, really, that's all I want.

Ah well, so you see, this week has been prettttttty draining, but it was followed by a wicked fun weekend. And I made it through that week. I survived and I didn't fail anything (well I really don't think so anyway! Frig, that would suck.) So the lessons to be learned from this week are: