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I got through my first day of summer session yesterday, and it wasn’t all that bad, despite the near freezing temperatures in the laboratory. I really understood what the professor was saying, and with one, mild exception, I really understood the homework problems, too. I’m still terrified, though, because the first midterm is in two days. That doesn’t leave a lot of time to prepare. I take comfort in the fact that many of the people in the class are taking it for the first time right now.

My sister’s cat has this new trick, where he screams at anyone who walks in front of my parent’s bedroom, because he wants to go in and lay on the mattress hidden under their bed. I think he’s decided it’s his secret cave.

My thumbnail has begun to come up, and it is very tender. I bled last night under the nail, where the white bubble of air was trapped, so now there’s a brown bubble with a thin white crest at the end, followed by yet another layer of bruising, and all of this constitutes probably a third of my nail. As David Attenborough probably never said, ew ew, ew ew. Ew.

I think it is unhealthy for me to consume turkey jerky the way I do. I mean, in the quantities I do. I consume it in the normal fashion.