Finals week, it's the best week of the semester. I LOVE IT. end of story.
You see, freshman year I remember getting really worked up over finals. The daunting, dreaded finals I had only heard about. I had siblings wishing luck vibes through text messages and for the first time my social media was plastered with everything pertaining to finals. (insert Ryan Gosling hey girl memes here) It turned out to be like any week of college when you have tests....THEY ALL FALL ON THE SAME WEEK! Except, there are no classes during finals week so naturally i'm going to pick the latter for the win.
Through the years I have unofficially began a couple of finals week traditions. My favorite one starting my freshman year when I borrowed a wool sweater from my dad. (refer to this
post.) Now, it's just expected that I borrow this sweater for finals week. This year, however, no begging was involved. I think my old man felt bad for me because one Sunday morning a few weeks ago my dad kept giving me stuff for my departure back to L-town. He calls them parting gifts, it's really cute. So he gave me a bunch of soup and tried to convince me to take gloves that were WAY to big for me, so i'd stay warm. And then he goes "meggie-lou, I have one more thing" He led me back to his closet and unburied THE SWEATER. I totally forgot about it. How did I forget about it? That thing is my very most favorite article of clothing he owns, and it's as itchy as heck but I love it. I love it like it's my own.
I wore it last week and decided to picstich it together with a picture of my dad wearing it. So, who wore it better?
Everything else about finals is simply wonderful because it's like a week of justifying. Justifying that Rio salad again when you had one just three days ago. Justifying that DDP to keep you awake when caffeine has no apparent affect on you. Justifying sleeping in 30 more minutes because it's negative degrees outside and staying in a warm bed somehow makes that sting a little less because, heck it's finals week and you have worked your tail off this semester.
May your finals week provide a fun change of pace and may you find joy during this infamously dreaded week.
Also, between this sweater and the traveling sweater, I have some pretty strange attachments to sweaters.
just in case you wanna be reminded of
these...you're welcome. Merry almost Christmas