party library? or library party?

i am tired and fried. it's week 2 of final exams. so there's a light at the end of the tunnel. i turned in my 50 page paper last thursday. right after that, i sat for my statistics final exam. now what remains is an exam, and final essay/paper, due tomorrow night in my child development class. if you want to know anything about the theories of piaget or vygotsky, principles of constructivism, or lawrence kohlberg's stages of moral development, ask me, b/c it's swirling around my head right now, just the way linear regression equations, correlation coefficients and chi square formulas were in my head last week.

i'm also stuck grading a stack of final exam essays for the class i'm TA-ing. if tiny fonts and single spacing were bad, try the nightmare of deciphering the sloppy handwriting of 62 college kids. ha.

speaking of which, yesterday i met a few classmates for a study group at one of the university libraries here that is open 24 hours during finals. OMG, i felt so old! it was "undergraduate party central", swarming with the 18-22-year-old college student demographic. although i look young for my age, i'm sure we all stuck out as "mature" doctoral students.

i swear, the library was SO loud, it was like a regular classroom or computer lab. you could totally carry on a regular volume conversation! everyone seemed to be ignoring the cell phone policy and talking on their phones. i could totally tell that some students really had spent the night there. some were wearing pajamas. every single one had a laptop with them, some had ordered pizzas delivered to the library, most had a Starbucks cup, and almost everyone had ipod earbud cords dangling from their ears. WAIT, that sounds like me-- minus the laptop and the pajamas.

anyway, so much for the librarians saying "Shhh!". i wonder if anyone will try to sneak a keg in there this week. the only thing missing from that library seemed to be beer.

**on a TOTALLY different note, it seems there's somoene after after my heart, which is certainly flattering. i mean, i guess you could say i've been kind of-sort of seeing someone. the thing is, it's complicated b/c i'm not sure what i think yet b/c it's sort of come so quickly and definitely as a surprise, with him "pursuing" me so strongly, and me being a woman with INTJ tendencies, and one who needs a lot of space and independence no matter how much i might like you. i guess that's too much information (TMI) here, or is it? maybe you really do want to know about my love life?