All Night in Union Station - Saturday, December 21, 1963

My train never left the station until 5:00 this morning, so we got to Fairfield at 10:00, and home at 11:00. Luckily I called for the second time last night at about 3:00 and told them - just as they were about ready to leave for Fairfield - that we hadn't left yet and they might as well go back to bed. It was disgusting in a way, yet funny, too, to sit all night in the train station after four hours sleep the night before. The train was cold, too, but I slept three hours, waking up each hour. Mom and I got the dress cut out this afternoon. Traveling sort of interfered with my plans this time! I slept a while this afternoon. Ann, Mom, Daddy and I decorated the church tree tonight.

An A on Resource Unit - Friday, December 20, 1963

It's such a feeling of relief to be done with finals. I can't believe the trimester is over - it went so fast. Fred was over for an hour before and after supper. His mother is getting here by jet in the morning. Karon hasn't seen her since she started college. I really didn't think the physiological final was bad at all. At any rate, I'm not going to worry any more about it. I couldn't work - satisfactorily, I doubt - a statistics problem in the theory and technique test - after a semester of psychological statistics! Here's hoping Mr. Carey doesn't remember I was taking it! I got an A on my resource unit.

Personality Test Out of the Way - Thursday, December 19, 1963

For some remarkable reason I don't feel very tired in spite of the fact that I've been going like I have. Physiological psychology - there's just too much to learn - so maybe I won't. Horrors! I took the personality test today to get it out of the way. It was hard, but I hope I came out okay for the course. Dean Gibson wasn't there so I took it in the old public relations office. I got a C- on the soc test and a C+ for the course. He graded each question and I got a B on the one I nearly lost sleep worrying that it would flunk me!?!

Christmas Dinner in Commons - Wednesday, December 18, 1963

Well, so far pretty good - I hope. I made three attempts, everyone else two, before I got the social problems test taken. First of all, I had memorized the finals schedule wrong - it was at 10:15, not 8:00. Then at 10:15 Mr. Gibson didn't show up because he thought the test was to be at 3:00! So we had to take it tonight at 6:30. Now I have to study for my personality test which I want to take tomorrow at 1:00. They finally got around to serving a Christmas dinner in Commons.

An Advent Tryst in Our Room - Tuesday, December 17, 1963

I didn't finish my resource outline until almost 4:00. I got it over to Mackay just in time to meet Mr. Carey on his way home. Such luck - also I finished my last page on the last line, so that there wasn't any gap between it and the part that I had done earlier beginning at the top of a page. I don't feel tired for having gotten up at 4:30, but I'm afraid I'm running out of time just the same. I was in charge of an Advent Tryst in our room tonight. I guess I'm the new Lucerne president. I only had time to see Fred at meals today.

A Picture From Fred - Monday, December 16, 1963

I'm afraid I'm going to have to risk a late paper for Mr. Carey - I'm just getting started on the "developing the unit" part of my resource unit outline. Except for going to class and some time with Fred, I spent the entire day working on it. Fred Alexander Haenisch gave me a picture tonight. We've been having fun teasing Evelyn by calling her Edna (her first name), so we decided Jim, Fred and I could be called by our middle names! What fun we don't have - at the same time, I'm still worried about everything I have to do.

Christmas Presents For Each Other - Sunday, December 15, 1963

Fred gave me my Christmas present tonight and I gave him his. He gave me a pretty cultured pearl and diamond set pendant on a sterling silver chain. I gave him a slide viewer. Between devoting time to Fred and and working on my resource unit, I passed the day in a hurry. I called Phyllis about going home, but she had to call back since the Tarkio switchboard was out of order and I couldn't get through. Nickel and Stephens went Christmas caroling tonight - Hawley, Herr House and the President's House. It was real nice - but cold!