So Close!!!!!

A math final tomorrow at 2:45 and an 11-18 page paper due Tuesday at 1:15 are all that stand in between me and graduation.

The final should be pretty doable - I *heart* Pitzer College for its math courses. I’ve got 6 of my 11-18 pages written for Tuesday, so I feel like I’m in good shape.

And yet all I can think about is…Rock Climbing.

Andy and I went again this afternoon and though I bruised both my knees and ripped a callus on my hand, I came away from the wall having conquered the second hardest 5.9 the gym. The climb starts at the base of one wall, with several tricky lungy moves required to make it past that stage. Then it transfers to a perpendicular wall as you go under an underhang that has you almost parallel with the ground below. The last part of the climb has you hanging down from the slanted wall on top of the overhang, trying to grab for handholds you can’t see on the opposing side of a 90 degree perpendicular wall. Making it to the top was one of the best moments of my life.

God I love climbing! At 4pm on Tuesday, after I walk out of Verlyn Klinkenborg’s Writing Nonfiction - my favorite class EVER - I will get in my car, head to the gym, and boulder all afternoon. Then I’m going to come back and party with my girl Michelle.

Please God, make Tuesday come soon!