midterms and the plague

Last week was midterms. No matter where you're at, its a stressful part of the semester. Projects are due, there are tests to be studied for, and everyone is generally freaking out. But I made it once again. My Italian exam and monster Art History exam are over and I can go back to concentrating on art. The new concern this week is the bad case of the stomach flu which is sweeping through the dorm. So far I've avoided it. I think the count is 11 of 36 people are down. My roommate,Fern, seems to have gotten a particularly bad case. I've basically moved out of the room. I'm avoiding it like... well... the plague. Its pretty ironic, since we just took an art history exam which covered Black Death Style; art that emerged after the plague of 1348. I'm pretty convinced the fact that we studied the plague, and we now have a plague of our own, are not unrelated. We'll see if this influences our artistic style.