Holy crap, I am so insanely hyper right now. HYPER RIGHT NOW. I was on the phone with Ren, and she said, “You sure are hyper right now.” And then I was on the phone with Maud, and she said, “You seem kind of hyper right now.” I AM. It’s that post-exam hyper, you know? Makes me remember how last fall after I turned in my last paper I was standing on Broadway and 112th on the phone with Tom, and he said, “Um. Have you slept?” What was strange, actually, was that I was feeling so weirdly calm about this exam all yesterday and all today, and was having trouble getting motivated to do very much work for it at all, which made me think, Either I know too much, or I know too little. And then this afternoon I went and took the exam, and it was fine, I guess, and then it was over, and there was no confetti, and there were no trumpets, it was just over. And it wasn’t till I got home tonight after hanging out with Maud and Karen and Rachel that I became all, “I need to do this and this and this and this, and I need to do it all right now.” Which is why after I put down my bag and took off my coat, I thought, Wait, maybe if I go samurai it up, it’ll make me chill out a little. And in the shower samurai-ing it up, I kept thinking, Okay, and then after this you have to do this and this, and then I made myself stop and only think about the present. Because isn’t that what a true samurai would do? Anyway then I got out of the shower and felt clean and lovely but wasn’t chill at all. The kind of not chill where I needed to find dinner, and I was standing in front of a fridge full of food and then a pantry full of food and then the fridge full of food again, and still couldn’t figure out what to eat. I don’t know how I’m going to get to sleep tonight. But maybe there will be no sleep tonight, which will be A-OK, because I have to do this and this and this and this, and I need to do it all right now.