Stretch Run

Whenever you hear people saying its into the stretch, like in horse racing, track and field, baseball season, it represents its crunch time. A time where every step, every second, every game, every pitch matters. So now as we enter December, its crunch time with finals starting in less than 3 days. I will be the first person to admitt I'm not the hardest working student (refer to my previous posts), I think I will really need to pick myself up from my slacking, procrastinating self and really work hard for once.

So today was supposedly the last day of lecture, but our professor told us last week not to worry about going today and just prepare for the exam on Thursday. I ended up taking advantage of the time off to get some OSAP and whatever other stuff done so I can forget about it. I ended up bussing to TD, got a few forms and then proceeded to take the bus back to campus. Stopping by Starbucks on the way back, it certainly help me "conquer" the weather at least for the time being. So while walking back to residence, I started thinking about my schedule for the next two weeks, how I will be preparing for all the exams I have, studying and completing experiment summaries and all that. Somewhere in the middle, my mind drifted off to thinking about the Christmas season, how everywhere its being advertise about love, love shared by two people. And then I read the Starbucks cup, "it only occurs once a year" (or something along that line), and then it hit me (I don't know how). While December is the typical month where university students will be spending countless hours preparing for their examinations, a month where enormous of money will be spent on various gift items, it is also the month where the true meaning of Christmas has been hidden away by advertisers everywhere. The focus has been shifted from the greatest gift ever given to men (and women), the greatest act of love demonstrated, to love shared by various people, and finding the right gift for the right person. While that is still important, I promised myself, this Christmas, in the middle of all the Christmas festivities, that I will remember I am not only loved by the greatest lover, who has already given me the greatest gift I can ever have, that I will be satisfied with what I'm given, and not constantly ask for more.

Speaking of procrastination, I think I used 20 minutes with that lil blurb? =D Already, back to work on psychology experiment summaries >.<