done and done. cha-chiiiiiingggg!!

i never imagined that i would be calm as i walked into the testing auditorium tonight. how could i be calm? pencils scratched scantrons, people squashed into the too small seats, backpacks were strewn about the room (and bless her soul, that little girl with the rolling backpack... you looked more like you were on a dang vacation toting that carryon around the room staring everyone down for an empty seat), and test monitors peering over every shoulder to ensure cheating wouldn't occur. how could it with their hawk-like eyes following each person's every move?

anyway.

i somehow didn't feel any anxiety, fear, waves of panic, or even the teensiest bit nervous about taking this beloved 15-pager. i just knew it was the last one.

i sat down. on the floor. pulled out the good ol' no. 2 and went to town.

1 hour and 17 minutes later that exam was toast and i wanted to stand up and cheer.

my last academic test for the next 18 months was OVER!!!!! IS over!!!

i was so exhilarated that i didn't even check my score. i happily dropped my test and scantron into the hands of the all-too-happy testing center employee and traipsed out the doors.

(personally, i seriously think the employee had just finished his last final and was cracking every joke in his book in celebration that the monsters were defeated for this semester. no one can actually be that happy collecting exams during finals week. meanwhile, other students shuffled through the doors as they had yet to take their tests... just an opinion folks. he's probably a happy chappy with nothing on his mind now that tests are over. maybe he's even graduating this semester. no wonder he would be happy...)

so. that's that.

my tests are over.

let the celebrations commence.

no more of this for a while... thank. goodness. :)