All done

So, after a certain amount of confusion about who had the exam paper and where it was going to be, I started at 10.30am and (with half an hour break for lunch) finished at 4pm.  I have weak wrists and I normally take precautionary painkillers before exams and wear a wrist support on my writing hand.  At about 10.29 this morning, I realised I had forgotten both these things.  By about midday I realised this was going to hurt.  A lot.  By about 3pm, I'd stopped being legible.  By about 3.30pm I'd stopped caring if I was illegible since changing things was going to hurt too much with no guarantee of improvement.  By 4pm I'd decided never to pick up a pen again in my life.

Anyway, it wasn't too bad, I suppose.  5 hours gives a lot more thinking time than I'm used to in exams.  4 questions in 3 hours is normal in the UK, and this was 4 questions in 5 hours.  I had two questions I felt fairly confident about, one that was okay and one that, when I opened the paper I thought I knew nothing about, but after several hours mulling it over and making occasional notes, I managed to scramble enough together to write a passable essay.  Well, we'll see.

Right now, I just want to sleep forever.  But tomorrow I have to get up and do washing, ironing (maybe), packing, cleaning, tidying, and finish writing the syllabus for the summer Greek course and then, hooray!, get on the plane and (hopefully) sleep, until I get to England.

I'll be there until the end of June and, although I expect to have some internet access, it'll be intermittent at best, so don't expect to see me around a whole lot.  But I have big plans to do lots of writing - I'm thinking about a Mary Sue, plus I want to make some good progress on The Squib.  

*waves goodbye to everyone in America*