Finals Day 4

Despite our best efforts we've hit quite a few snags on the focus train to good grades, as evident by the fact that my paper remains unfinished, JukeBox has only managed to make flashcards and not study them, and she-who-cannot had a mental breakdown over a bottle of 5 hour energy drink. This last actually merits an explanation, as it may serve as a cautionary tale for energy junkies out there:

So last night at around midnight she-who-cannot took a 5 hour energy drink after having downed quite a bit of coffee throughout the day from the Coffee Bean on campus. She didn't even need to stay up that late, and so ended up not sleeping most of the night, except between the hours of 5 and 10 in the morning. Then at lunch she had more iced coffee and proceeded to study and all was good. Sometime during the day she had another 5 hour energy unbeknownst JB and I, and there might not have been any problems, except that at around 8 the stuff that had fueling her all day ran dry. I heard her and JB talking and decided to investigate, and what should I find but she-who-cannot, prostrate on JB's bed with glazed eyes and nonsensical words coming out of her mouth. Upon questioning she informed us she planned to take yet another 5 hour energy, and maybe even a Monster to top it off. Fearing for her health JB and I chased her to her room and cornered her, where she proceeded to stuff the bottle down her shirt first, then down her pants, and then wave at us in the universal "can you not?" hand motion(ok, it's not universal now, but it will be; basically a wax on, wax off motion of the hand). It's sad to see a friend hung up on unhealthy substances, but she needs it to study for chem, so in the end we allowed it...or, actually, she tricked us into allowing it. All is well right now, but I fear for when she's all done with finals and finally falls asleep.

Like I said, the whole finals thing is not going well. It did not at all help that today was my birthday, and between accepting birthday greetings, talking to the family,and having she-who-cannot rap birthday songs at me, not much was done. Ah well, it was a pretty good birthday all around...feels weird to be 20. Now maybe I'll be as awkward as JukeBox.