How to Survive

I've moved into survival mode. It's cold outside, but there's way too much to do inside anyway. It is indeed the week of death, make that the beginning of the weeks of death. When I say, "week of death," I mean a week full of midterms, or papers--however it turns out for you. I have papers. Right now, I'm working on three of them, and two of them are in Italian.

I suppose I really can't complain too much because I figured it would be like this--two papers in each Italian class and a small paper and a really huge paper in my senior English class. So, I guess I knew what I was getting into when I signed up for it. And the papers are not altogether kill-joys. I'm actually liking how they're turning out. What does get me is that I have to work on them all at the same time.

So, how does one survive the "week of death"? Good question. Ideally, you will have already thought of that and have been working to get ahead for the week of death. But often, even if you do so, you may still suffer. I kick things into survival mode. This means I pretty much go to school as soon as I wake up, eat bits here and there when I'm hungry, and then go to bed once I've finished everything for the next day. Oh, and don't forget the coke! I bought a nice six-pack last night to help keep myself going.

Other possible solutions/alternatives:
1. Build a freeze ray and stop the world.
2. Set loose a basilisk in your school.
3. Sleep through it.
4. Save yourself time--wear the same clothes the whole week (no shower!)
5. Contract some deadly disease (just make sure you live through it)
6. Go to Dagobah (ask for Yoda)
7. Have Scotty beam you up.
8. Do it Katniss style--show them what happened to Seneca Crane.
9. Get Sherlock to take your test for you.
10. Rent a puppy!

One of those should suffice.