On Tuesdays my brain checks out at 11:30am. Why? Because I have Junior Sem from 10:00-11:30 and this class is so taxing. It drains my brain power. Our discussions really dig deeply into the text and they involve so much thought. There's just so much to process. Someone makes a point, I think about it and before I get done working through that part of the text another issue is brought up. And there are about a million things flying at me at once and I can't wrap my head around all of them. I know what I sound like now - I'm coming off as a lazy, unmotivated bum complaining because oh no God forbid he/she has to THINK in school. My point is that by the end of the hour and a half my brain has exhausted all its fuel but unfortunately I still have two more classes. Tuesdays are the suck.

I also have IV leadership meetings on Tuesday nights. Those are always very fruitful but draining also. Draining in a different way than Junior Sem is, but it still saps me of energy.

Highlight of my day: In Chinese class my professor was explaining to the class what a "yang rou quar" was. Which is basically a Chinese kabob. To explain it she said "the bamboo penetrates the meat," and with her hands motioned the action of sticking a bamboo skewer through meat by sticking her right index finger in and out of a ring she made with her left fingers. Yeah, we laughed it up.

I'm obsessed with drawing lucky charms all over my notes.