Just in case you were wondering how my o-chem midterm went, this is what happened BEFORE it this morning. I am taking the easy way out and pasting in my IM conversation with Jolene because I have already described it once and I don't want to write it all out again. Also because she complained that I don't update enough (even though I have a DISCLAIMER about that sort of thing in my very first entry) and this is the only remotely humorous thing that has happened to me lately.
jojokat35: how did your o-chem midterm go?
kon2chiwa: do you want my whole dissertation on how it went?
jojokat35: no homeless man sat next to you with a paper bag and took the test, did he?
Digression:
During my very first midterm in 140A, the resident homeless guy of La Jolla decided he too wanted to participate in the o-chem festivites of the evening. He walked into our midterm, carrying nothing more than a bottle of liquor in a paper bag and a pencil (no really, I wish I was kidding) and chose a seat in the crowded lecture hall right next to me. By this point, the professor had given up with the "every-other-seat" idea so he sat right next to me. It was a bit distracting I'll admit because the smell of alcohol and body odor was kind of overpowering. More so when he took off his jacket, but having no other empty seat in sight except the one on the other side of him, I stayed put. During the midterm, I barely contained my desire to glance over just to see what he was so vehemently writing but the last thing I needed was to be accused of cheating off of the homeless man. I finished my exam first and left before he was done so I don't know whether he turned in the test or not.
kon2chiwa: no, i just spilled coffee all over my white sweatshirt and left my wallet in a planter box
jojokat35: youre kidding
Ok, this dialogue thing is getting annoying. Here's what happened: I was stirring the coffee that I had just bought at the Grove when I took out the stirrer (popsicle stick) and a drop dripped off and narrowly missed me. I thought, "That's a first, it always falls on me." I have come to find out that if coffee is sitting in a cup anywhere near me, it will spontaneously jump out of the cup and onto me. So I put the lid on and walked off. Turns out there was something wrong with the lid because even though it clicked onto the cup, it did not form a liquid proof seal. When I tilted it to drink out of the hole, about half the cup of coffee ran between the cup and lid...all onto me. This was hilarious really because I had JUST thought about two seconds ago, "Yay no coffee on me." So i walked over to the nearest planter box, put my coffee down and forgot I was also still holding my wallet which I must have put down next to the cup. I took off my sweatshirt, mopped up the cup, took the lid off and chugged it, giving it no opportunity to spill again. Meanwhile, walking away, sans wallet. This is especially bad because in o-chem midterms they check IDs before you can turn in your test. Which, I was surprised to discover a few minutes before my test was due, I did not happen to have. I left my test with the TA and retraced ("re-ran" actually, since I could only make the TA wait a few more minutes after class) my steps waaaaay back by the Grove cafe where I discovered my wallet still chilling with the potted tree. So I guess it all worked out ok in the end...at least until I get my grade back....
