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. received some lovely Christmas cards from athena8 and reposoir. They definitely put me in a good mood when I got them. Thank you, dears!

. finished my final final at 6:27 this morning. It was a three-hour essay test, which means that yes, I started it at 3:27, but I laid down for about 15 minutes in the middle because my body was sore. (See below.)

. played Wink for the first time last night! For those of you who aren't familiar with it, Wink is a Quaker wrestling-type game in which you have two concentric circles with people in the inner circle trying to kiss a single person in the middle of the circles after they're called up for being a part of a certain category. The people in the outer circle try to hold the people in the inner circle back. Both circles can't stand. Basically, you have a dozen people rolling around on the ground, trying to crawl (or to keep people from crawling) to the person in the middle. It's good times.

. want to start taking private violin lessons again. The reason I stopped is because they stressed me out too much during the year, but I really miss, you know, being good at the violin. I still play in the orchestra, and my quartetmates are back from abroad next semester so I'll be doing chamber music again, but it's not the same as hunkering down and working hard on a piece for yourself.

. am headed to Japan in two days! I'm hoping to do my laundry tonight (after stopping by at a party to see some of my friends for the last time before they're abroad next semester) and then pack tomorrow. Getting everything together in time is going to be a little tough, but I'll try.