Pencils sharpened, clothes laid out.....

....I ate a decent dinner and will go to bed early.

I haven't taken a test in....years. Although I just started my language course two weeks ago my first big test is tomorrow morning and it covers the equivalent of a two semester university language class.  I feel uncharacteristically confident and relaxed.  The calmness of my nerves is aided by the fact that if I don't do well it means nothing except that I have more to learn, and that is already a given.  This experience has so far been so wonderful because I am doing the course for no greater purpose than to learn it.  My ability to get it or not doesn't affect how I am perceived or what I can or cannot do with my future.  There is no GPA hovering and threatening to crash around me.  It's quite lovely really.

So that's all.  I have a test.  It begins while most of you are sleeping.  So before you drift off tonight I would love it if you think a lovely thought and send it my way.