I am finally starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Today I had my very last class of the semester (yay!), and our final exam was handed out. I was expecting the worst, so I ended up quite pleased. There's only one question, and it's actually interesting. But that best part? Maximum five pages. Those words just about made my day.

Other awesome news: I checked my grade on my special topics project, and thought I failed, which was very WTF, especially since the comments said my paper was well written and made good use of the literature. Turns out she made a typo when she entered the grade, so I didn't fail! Yay!

I spent another night at the City of Fairfax Library. They play music at closing to coerce people to leave, which I thought was a kinda cool strategy. This whole going to the library to work thing seems to be working out all right so far. I'm down to one two-page question on one exam, and two three-page questions for the other. Last Tuesday I wrote more than that in less than ideal conditions, so we'll see what I can do camped out in the library tomorrow.

Also, I am contractually required to point out that Fairfax has the failiest traffic circle I have ever encountered.

What's the point of building a traffic circle at all if half the traffic goes right through the middle? Now they just have two sets of traffic lights instead of one. That's not more efficient, it's just more confusing!
Today I went riding on the Washington & Old Dominion Trail, and I definitely overdid it a bit. There's a trailhead several block from my house right around mile marker 10, and I made it my goal to get to mile 17. I ended up turning back two miles before that because I was already getting tired. The way back goes gradually uphill, so I was just exhausted by the time I got home. Apparently the fact that I could easily ride 15 miles last summer doesn't mean I can now when I'm all out of shape. Oops.

The trail is really nice though. It's paved and lined, and it's almost 45 miles long. In Arlington the W&OD trail hooks up with some other trails into the city. I'm nowhere near up to it now, but my goal is to get in good enough shaped that I can bike to the city and back. I should try to ride every day and work my way up to it... we'll see how that goes.

I do need to find a good bike shop around here. My brother is a mechanic, but I didn't get a chance to take my bike to him for a tune-up before I left. (My brother actually built my bike entirely out of spare parts. It's nothing too fancy, but it's a vast improvement on my old Huffy.) Of course, just the thought of looking for bike shops brings back bad memories of last years evil Dialog project. At least there won't be any spreadsheets involved.

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