Finals Week

Finals are coming up.  Can I get an "oh, crap!!"?  Hopefully I'm not the only one who's stressing out about them.  But I've discovered some invaluable coping techniques.  They involve arduous studying interspersed with man small breaks and distractions, good food, attempting to sleep (and mostly failing), and copious amounts of chocolate. 
It also helps to think that I have a month-long break following finals. 
I can't help but feel like this is another "how do you eat an elephant" situation. One minute at a time, one assignment at a time, one final at a time.  Until it's over.  
With life so busy and hectic at the moment, it tends to be easy to forget what else is going on right now:  it's almost Christmas!  Actually it's only nineteen days away now (not that I'm counting or anything though).  Anyway this is just my little reminder that life is good. 
To all my friends in college, good luck for the next couple of weeks.  You can do it!!  And when we get done...we have an entire month to forget absolutely everything they just tested us on.  :)  What a lovely thought.  Eat plenty of vegetables, try and sleep if you possibly can.  And stuff...  Who am I kidding, we're going to eat like crap and what on earth is sleeping?!
To all of you who are NOT in college...I hate you.  No, I'm just kidding.  But I am super jealous of you.
To whom it may concern, my birthday is in five days.  Oh, here, happy birthday from Utah State--we'll schedule finals week to start the day after your birthday. 
Good luck, friends!  Keep it real.