Pre-test ritual

Crunch time..........
7:37 am - 23 minutes until test time! Approximately 1/2 hr pre-test I quit. I try to give my brain a little relaxing time before the test actually starts. I didn't used to study right before a morning exam, but now I review briefly a few things - hoping that the mechanism of action of one or two more drugs might stick. And I think it's a warm up for my brain prior to the test. I will be done in less than 5 hours! woo hoo.....

I know I'm not the only one who has a pre-test day ritual. Mel reads a book for fun prior to the exam. Me... I wake up, put on my lucky underwear (they are only lucky because I think they are cute and declared them to be lucky ), study until 1/2 hr pre-exam time, then do something relaxing (today writing in my blog), and then I have a song I listen to on my ipod by Yurima, entitled Maybe. It's piano music and it relaxes me. I sit in the lecture hall with the notes floating into my ears as I watch everyone find their seats, lay out their pencils, coffee, snacks, etc - doing their pre-test ritual thing. I enjoy sitting there in my own little musical world watching everyone else moving around me. I feel like an observer and not a participant in this crazy jumble. I'm calm from the music, yet anxious, and excited to get the test started. The sooner we start the sooner we're done!

Ok, I'm off.