Today was not your average Monday.


To start it off I woke up at six thirty. I had gotten to sleep at eleven last night so waking up so early wasn't nearly as painful. I sat on my couch and did something that made all the difference in today's comings and goings. I sat and read my scriptures for half an hour. It changed my day. Afterward I got ready for the day real fast and went on my way to biology. For a Monday, I was in a very good mood! Surprisingly so considering the amount of work I had to do. Biology was fine, like it always is, and calculus made sense! Ten minutes before calc was over I got a text from Alex, who hadn't talked to me yet that day saying he just got done at the temple and wanted to see me. :) What with my geology block over I'm done with everything at eleven and regardless of the essay to write and test to take I gladly took him up on his offer, eagerly skipping out of the JKB to his awaiting car a few feet away. A lovely little surprise! We went shopping and then out to lunch, all in all about two hours together. :) It wasn't much but felt like the world. We've gotten to the point {or are in the process} that we don't need to see each other every day or for long periods of time. Maybe it was just today... either way it was fabulous seeing him and gave me the extra boost I needed. Once he left I sat myself down and studied for my biology midterm. Quite frankly, I didn't care about it though, had heard it was easy, and couldn't concentrate so I kinda half-heartedly studied. After maybe half an hour or forty-five minutes I said, "oh well" and went and took it. 95%, hahaha. Maybe I'm smarter than I think. Maybe the test was easy! haha. With that out of the way I simply had to conquer my essay. *dun dun dun!!!* It wasn't an essay so much as an outline. Book of Mormon is a hard class because while there are only a few, maybe three, assignments and a couple quizzes, they are graded HARD. The last assignment was to make the bibliography for your essay, free choice prompt. Basically we just needed to do all the research ahead of time. I despise essays. I really, really do. So I procrastinated that until the absolute last second, BS-ed nearly the whole thing {I think I had three legitimate sources, all the rest were random books I pulled off the shelf that seemed mildly applicable}, and still got an 84 on it. Dang, I'm good. But that really did screw me over for this assignment {due tomorrow} because I had no real research with which to draw up a three page outline. I plunked myself down on the second floor, religion section of the library and began. By five-thirty I was worn out and thankfully Mitch and I had planned on seeing each other! He took me to dinner and we had a heart-to-heart. Mitch.. is a true, dear friend and I am very grateful to have him in my life. He'd been having some troubles and it saddened me to the core to hear about what he's been going through. So many people love him, more than he knows, and he is incredibly important to me. It was just really good for me to catch up with him. :) At seven I went back other to the library, sat down at the same desk and began the tedious task again. The problem became that I had all the research done within only three sources, I had to broaden my thesis several times before I made it up to six. That's when I quit, 9:30 and I decided it could wait until tomorrow. I walked home, picked up some groceries {yay new conditioner!} and walked in at 10:15. Now, a full hour later, I am calling it a night. After a 15 hour day I am exhausted! But not stressed or upset or depressed. :) Starting my day off right helped immensely. 


We shall see what Tuesday brings!