Acronyms are unhealthy

Still studying. Did I ever mention how much I despise cumulative finals? Especially the ones that are worth up to 75% of your grade? Six weeks, unfortunately, seems to be just the right length for me to forget enough details to need to review every single sheet of note I've ever taken. At least for one class. But then, since this IS the norm for finals, I don't know what I'm complaining about.

Maybe it's because it's summer, and the fact that it IS summer is finally penetrating my (as some people pointed out) remarkably hard head. There is a physics review session at, I think, 6 in the evening today so I should probably go through all the notes for that first so I can either a) pick out the really useful information during the session or b) fail to find any new and useful information and work on study questions on my own. The point is that I have to be able to distinguish the information by 5pm. Cheers.

Oh yes. It is my birthday, happy birthday to me. I thought that instead of promising to do something I'd actually start doing it, as a gift to everyone, and so I started doing it early so there'd actually be something there to see by today. So here -I've finally updated my deviant art account - with the 100 prompt thing that people doing fanart are very familiar with, except I'm doing it for the Lunatic guys.

And if I were completely honest, I'd admit that it's really not that selfless a gift because I would've done it anyway, just because I need lots of practice drawing cartoon people. I just wouldn't have uploaded them online, that's all.

Ah well, maybe next year.

My parents came over yesterday and we did the actual celebrating part then. There're flowers and cake and everything. Especially flowers. Mom remembered that I preferred potted flowers to cut ones, so she bought me a pot of those mini-roses, but she didn't think they "count", so she got me cut flowers anyway. There weren't any cake-candles so we made do with tea-light-candles that I dug up, and 20 of them just about goes around the perimeter of the cake (and so I estimated that the cake should be about 8 inches across and checked the box this morning and I got my math right, yay). I took a picture of that, with the flowers, which I will upload and post as soon as all this excitement with the finals dies down.

I completed the celebratory events yesterday by snagging a copy of Neverwhere from online and reading it in one setting and it was so, so satisfying even though I probably can't afford the time to do that. But oh well, five and a half hours can be my present to myself.

Charleen's finding a place to move the kitties, before Thursday.