I hate Islamic Law... and Arabic... and history...

So... tomorrow (or maybe that's today... well, I mean Tuesday) is it! My mom arrives for a week-long visit starting this Wednesday so I need to have everything finished by then. That means only one last day to kick it into high gear.

My life thus far:

Thursday through Sunday: Parked in front of my computer writing about Ibn Taymiyya and the Shari'a for my never-ending, interminable, endless, and infinitely stretching Islamic Law paper. (Feel free to start humming Limahl's "Neverending Story" here) I know you don't want to know any more about it than that... trust me.

Monday morning: Arabic Final Exam from HELL. The worst test all semester. Nightmare. Awful. Bring me death. My dreams of an "A" sizzling like bacon on a plate full of grease...

Monday afternoon: Getting my haircut "fixed" in the back because my hairdresser (OK... admittedly at Cost Cutters) totally jacked it up when he cut it this past Saturday. I hate having to go back to hairdressers, but I honestly looked like I was wearing an ill-fitting wig. Anyway, he kindly re-shaped it, and now I no longer have to hide under a hat. Also swam laps at the pool to keep from having a nervous breakdown after aforementioned test and swam next to a guy that never moved his legs! They just floated around behind him in a bow-legged peg-leg sort of way. But wouldn't you know it, he lapped me about 20 times...

Tonight: Recording myself on video (on my computer... and no, none of you may ever see it...) talking for 3 - 5 minutes about my life in Arabic as a another part of the tortuous final exam. Yeah, see, you would not even know what I was saying (or care).

Late tonight: Editing and re-reading my monolithic 26-page "Demise of the Saudi Ulama" Islamic Law tome. I must have it done tomorrow!

Tomorrow: Writing another paper (a manuscript review, or some such nonsense, on a book I haven't quite finished yet on Algerian fundamentalism) for my "Struggle and Survival in the Middle East" history class. Luckily, the teacher is an easy grader.

However, seeing as it is 1:31 am, I have no time to be particularly clever tonight (eyes involuntarily closing now)... but this picture did make me laugh when I saw it somewhere on the internet a couple weeks ago (when I could still enjoy life):