The acquisition of book smarts

[sawyl]

After spending the last few hours frantically trying to jam learning into my head, I now feel sandy-eyed and ill. My condition is not helped by the knowledge that I'm going to have to get up tomorrow morning and go through the same process all over again.

How on earth did I manage to get so behind? Oh, wait, I remember now: I spent a couple of weeks lazing and slacking off...