October

Happy October, everybody! I am super excited and slightly worried about this upcoming month.

Why excited? Because I get fall break midway through the month! And I've still got Thanksgiving break coming up in November! Three cheers for October!

And on a less excited but still not worried note, Halloween is coming up too. I actually haven't really celebrated this holiday for a few years, since some kill-joy *coughMomcoughDadcough* decided my brother and I were getting too old to dress up and grab some candy from the neighbors. Grr, I'm never too old for chocolate.

And moving on to the slight anxiety, I now have midterms this month. The joys of college life - double the number of exams you take, just because each course lasts a semester rather than a full school year. Hmm, I had a couple courses in high school that lasted only a semester, and that teacher only gave us exams with the rest of the school.

Of course, that teacher also walked around the classroom during the exam and told us when we had a wrong answer. And then when a classmate or two said the answer out loud, he acted annoyed but not angry. Yeah, maybe I got spoiled. Just a little.

Of course, I wasn't expecting that in college. Who would? I just wasn't expecting midterms to take place in the middle of the semester.

Anyways, back to the bigger topic at hand. October. We all know what comes after October, right? Right: Octember! You'd better get out paper and pencil and start finishing off that list of things you want for the first of Octember. It's going to be a great day!

...Now I'm wondering how many of you actually caught my reference. I mean, the author's pretty famous, and I'd say more or less genius. But no, I'm not going to say any names. Although I just Googled it, and now I'm thinking we may have to wait until after December for Octember to come around... Sigh, the joys of not researching things before you type them and then being too excited about them to erase them...

Oh, well. Happy October anyways, people!