Ohhh, dearie me...

Soooo... that Greek World essay that was due at four or five pm today? Yeah, it was due at noon. I didn't even realize that until about two-thirty.

(Cue massive heart attack. And a monumentally impressive sprint in my pajamas. Seriously, I'd just slipped on the closest pair of shoes--not sandals, thankfully--and I was slipping all over the place. Sort of ran into a guy at one point.)

But the course secretary didn't even blink as I handed it to her, so I figure either a) it doesn't matter, b) she doesn't care and they'll just take off ten points, or c) there was another essay for a different class due today and my essay will get put in that pile.

First option would be best. Obviously. But I'd happily take the third one, too, because then I can just argue that they made a mistake. =P

Haven't started studying for Latin yet today. (I'm going to fail that midterm next Thursday.)

Food first. I'm starving. And my heart is still going 9349875378920 mph.

(It feels like life got awfully complicated awfully fast.)

A Mostly-Calm Weekend (Part 3)

Sunday was even calmer than Saturday, so this will probably be short. (Well, that and I have my second class of the year in about an hour, and still have a few things to do beforehand.)

I went off to the Archery World Championships at Prince’s Gardens (I think that’s what it’s called—it’s the Something Gardens off Prince’s Street, anyway) to watch the women’s compound semis and finals and the men’s recurve semi and finals.

First off, don’t ever let anybody—even me—tell you that recurve isn’t as accurate as compound. It’s a little less reliably accurate, maybe, but there were still plenty of perfect sets. And both events were shot from the same distance. I don’t know exactly how far it was, but it had to’ve been close to eighty yards. Every time someone let an arrow off, it went hissing through the air alongside the stands. (SSssht!) That was cool. Even cooler was trying to imagine the sound a thousand arrows would make during some Hollywood blockbuster. :)

The scores for both men and women were incredibly close. In both instances, the difference between gold and silver was a single arrow. The American guy, Brady Ellison, won gold (beating out the South Korean, which surprised me—they always seem to win archery tournaments. =P) and the Amercian woman came in third. Apparently Brady Ellison has been doing some sort of cancer fundraiser, and his sponsors have agreed to match whatever he wins. And when he got up on the podium, he said he’d hit $10,000. Pretty cool to see someone doing such a good thing for the world. :)

Something funny I noticed—once the British woman had been knocked out, the crowd seemed to gravitate toward cheering for the American. Kind of interesting, I thought, since I’ve been told multiple times (all by Americans before I left) that they’re not so crazy about us.

Pictures of the matches to come!