Exams, Headaches and Excessive Chocolate Consumption

So, it is indeed that time of year: exam season. It is at this time that students across the country suddenly realise that they should have perhaps done that extra reading, or maybe spent a larger proportion of their time awake in lectures.

Of course, there are always those people who seem to breeze through exams without it affecting their cool, nonchalant enigmatic personas. I, unfortunately, am not one of these said enigmatic people. Instead, I spend my time worrying about how little I appear to know, thinking "what if such a question comes up?" or contemplating whether if I was to stay up for those few extra hours, would it be effective what with the reduced sleeping time (more on this later)...So, in essence, I just want to moan about exams. I used to be so good at taking them...what happened?!

To deal with this, I have naturally turned to the long-time, scientifically proven (by me) method of consuming excessive amounts of chocolate. Yesterday I acquired a rather spiffing box of Belgian choccies, a small thank-you token from my old neighbours. This evening, the rather spiffing box is empty. They did taste good, though. The sugar is great at giving me that boost...but then it runs out and I realise I need to eat more chocolate (such a shame)...so now I am chocolate-less, craving sugar and slowly falling asleep. How I am so tired is beyond me. After a dreadful two hour exam, through which my head was throbbing with the intensity of repeated sforzandos from an excitable brass band, I retired to my bed for a quick nap. Somehow, the 45 minutes which I had set aside for this nap quickly turned into a whole afternoon affair. But now I really want to sleep again, I can feel a headache growing....again....and am keen to avoid the disabilitating event that is the migraine. So here I am again, facing a dilemma. Do I stock up (again) on some sort of drug concoction and muddle through a couple of hours of revision before retiring to bed and inevitably sleeping in late and losing revision time tomorrow, or do I simply go to bed and spend half the night awake feeling guilty as I've done no revision today? I am not a decisive person, and I will no doubt spend a significant amount of time contemplating both options. Most likely it will result in me doing something completely different.

Perhaps I'll just buy some more chocolate.