There are just some quarters determined to kick your ass. Some quarters when you get a midterm back, see that your score is too low, read the comments that say "you know the material but write unclearly", realize it's the other way around, and finally get a fraction of your missing points back because your TA doesn't speak English, couldn't understand the more polysyllabic terms, but doesn't want to admit full culpability and so still screws your grade over. And in quarters like this, it's almost a foregone conclusion that the term paper you've spent so much time crafting was due on last Monday, not this Friday, and you somehow took that down wrong, in addition to missing said Monday so you had no idea. So too, during quarters like this, should one simply assume that your hard drive will immolate itself right before finals, you will leave a crucial, heavily notated book on a plane, and the library will lack replacements. Which is all to say that it has not been a very good week, and the one about to take its place is not looking much better.
