So, I’m studying chemistry — a lot!  My exam is in less than 48 hours now, and while I’m not exactly panicking, I’d feel much better about things if I hadn’t missed so much time.

I spent a good chunk of this morning sitting under a large Periodic Table, featuring its inventor — Dmitri Mendeleyev — in the corner.  It was kind of like having a loving great-uncle watching over me as I toiled away.

Logically, I know there’s nothing to worry about.  There really is no danger of me failing the course.  I crunched the numbers today, and I have something like 47 out of 50 possible marks going into the exam.  The exam itself is worth 50 percent of my final mark, and I figured out today that if I get about 82% on it, I’ll get the mark I want on my transcript.  I like A+ as a mark — it makes me happy.   (It will also help to undo some of the damage to my transcript from The Great Hibernation of 1995-1996.)

Most of the chemistry material is stuff I’m confident I’ve conquered.  Now I’m just wrestling with the stuff we did on organic chemistry.  It’s getting there — slowly but surely.  I’ve been eating, breathing and sleeping chemistry for days now, and plan to continue doing so until I hand in my exam.

It’s a toss-up over what I’ll dream about tonight — Uncle Dmitri or his demented cousin, Ethyl Methyl Ether.

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