So tomorrow is actually another break day for me and Glen. I guess it hasn't quite hit me because I haven't been working really hard for the past couple of days, so I don't feel like I deserve a break. I probably could have used one on Tuesday when I kind of mentally crashed, but I'm sort of back on top of things now and the fact that we have tomorrow off feels like a surprise.
Separate from the studying aspect, I am really excited about it because Mindy takes her last final of first year tomorrow morning and that means tomorrow afternoon we will both actually be free to PAR-TAY. Also, it's supposed to be really really hot tomorrow and I think one day of sticky hot is fun because it makes it feel like summer.

Yesterday was two weeks until we take our test. I'm not panicked because I know I'm going to get through everything -- that's the benefit of the ridiculously detailed schedule I took two days to plan out before we began. But I am a little sick to my stomach over it because my practice test scores aren't making me happy. I spent a little while analyzing them with a spreadsheet (which does make me happy) and I can see that I have improved a little bit from the beginning... slightly higher scores, slightly more consistent, slightly closer to the Kaplan user average. But it's so subtle that it took fricking data analysis to show. Sigh.

So I'll end on something dumb just to try to balance out all of that whining. Yesterday I went to Starbucks down the street for a snack, and on the chalk board by the door they advertised a raspberry-citrus-caramel-mango-melon green tea... maybe I just added in one extra ingredient or so, but that was seriously the gist of it. So I can't resist trying new flavors, so I ordered one (and the girl put me down for a large even though I think I forgot to specify the size). She yells it back to the other girl who is like, "what??" She didn't know what this drink was that they were offering; apparently it wasn't an official Starbucks seasonal drink, just something that somebody thought up. So they have syrups not only for their coffee drinks, but I guess fruit flavors for these tea drinks. So she had to come out to the front and look at the chalk board, and then she went back and squirted random amounts of those random flavors into a cup and filled the rest with iced green tea. She was really apologetic and made me try it before I left saying she would make me something else if it had come out too weird (it was bright pink). But surprisingly, it was really good -- not too much of any one flavor and not too sweet (by my standards anyway). And as I drank it, a new flavor would stand out among the rest so it was interesting to drink too.
So in conclusion, my advice is to go to Starbucks and have them put a squirt of every single flavor they have into a cup with some iced tea and you will have come up with the new summer sensation.