The great stand-off! I sit at my desk staring squarely at a the beast and it stares back with fire in its eyes! I must not show weakness or back down. Too often in the past month this monster has caused me to flee and hide in the sanctity of my ignorance. Finally the battle can no longer wait. My deadline looms, and I now have little time before I will have to file into the exam hall and wrestle the beast to the ground and let the bells toll its death knoll. But for now we stand and stare. I at my desk, the unopened study material on the far side of my desk safely out of reach.
