A Little Piece of Heaven in the Middle of Hell

Let's face it. Graduating year in college is the most stressful thing ever. With balancing acads, social life and other commitments, it is definitely hell. Added to that are early morning -- or should I say dawn -- wake up time, and late night bedtime. Literally, it's like I live and breathe stress. Life has definitely given me lots of lemons and clearly I have not made lemonade. Today, though was so different. I knew my dismissal time would be 1pm. I knew I could go home early, but I still thought it was going to be another hell day with the report and the exam coming up. I left the house at 6:10 am and the neighbor's crazy mutt chased me! Gosh, I hurriedly closed the gate so it would not follow me any further. I got to the LRT station early enough to catch a pretty much empty train. I got to school a few minutes before 6:30, though my class does not start till 8. Why so early? I had to cram my reviewing for the exam, and I find that the empty benches and the fresh morning look of the school motivates me to study harder. My best friends met me at around 6:50 and we reviewed together, sort of. You know how friends are. Before we went to our first class, we saw my high school classmate and we started chit chatting again. We came to our room around ten minutes before the time. Well, I knew the remaining groups are bound to report for my first class so I had nothing to do but to be there physically. Mentally, my mind was elsewhere. Staring at my crush does not help me focus on the report at all. Of course, smiling like an idiot the whole time does not help either. I was sneaking side glances at him the whole time. I am a ninja, remember? Anyway, when the class was over and he did not even acknowledge my presence, I went on with my life, photocopying readings for one of my major classes. I just died and went to heaven when he approached me and talked to me. Definitely a one-way ticket to heaven. I couldn't even remember exactly what happened. I literally froze in place. So that was how it felt, the crush thing. After that, I could not think coherently. I was stuttering all throughout the report. I could not even remember the content of my report! And when it was time for the exam later on, I was so disoriented that I was randomly putting in T or F in random blank spaces when it came to the last part of the test. It was one of my craziest exams ever! I got an okay grade, though. 85% is not bad for a very disoriented exam. After the exam, my friends and I ran some epic fail errands, not even accomplishing one of them. However, some unexpected things happened. We met our lab prof, so we talked about the paper we were planning to submit at PJP or PSSP. A truly inspired and awesome opportunity! Then, finally, we went to the mall to watch a movie. Letters To Juliet to be exact. It was marvelous! A perfect film for some girl bonding time! Yet again, I don't know if it was the film which was great or it was just me feeling so alive that made the film so great. Either way, I surely enjoyed the movie! Then we went to have doughnuts. Yum! Then it was time to window shop till we drop. Lots and lots of cute stuff, shoes especially! After that and lots of talking, we were dead beat that we were ready to call it a day. I got home with mom lying on the couch, and dad and my bro watching a DVD. My sister was with my aunt. Peace and quiet. It's not very often that this happens. So, there is a little piece of heaven in the middle of hell after all.