I have been smacked with the sudden realization that I have not done any of my homework for the holidays. Ouch. It shall be done by midnight tomorrow, afterwhich I will be able to enjoy the last remant of this pathetic excuse for a holiday by catching up on my Chemistry. If I could get my way, holidays will be longer. And I will get stright 'As' without studying. And lots of money. While I am at it, I might was well throw in the girl of my dreams. Ah, my imaginery life is good.

O is for optimism. There are those who might argue that optimism is a characteristic, more than a mood. Either you are optimistic, or you are not. However, I feel that this is complete rubbish. How can there be a person on earth so foolish that he or she feels optimistic all the time? Optimism is more like a mood. Someone with the 'optimistic characteristic' is merely optimistic most of the time. When one feels optimistic about something, one would feel like the outcome of the event would be a positive one. One trigger for this optimistic feeling could be lots of effort put into making something work, like when you spend lots of time on your Economics essay and you really think that you can scrape a pass and top the class this time. Another trigger could be plain stupidity, where you just think that something will happen and you invest all your hopes in it. Hopefully the emotion you experience after optimism is not dissapointment.