Lately I have been feeling like Jessie Spano in the episode of Saved by the Bell in which she gets addicted to caffeine pills. Which is not to say that I have become addicted to caffeine--which, as Elizabeth Berkley's performance ably conveys, was a much stronger substance in the 1990s, producing effects similar to those of crystal meth.
All right, I admit it: I probably am addicted to caffeine. But that's not the point. The point is that I understand what made Jessie reach for the pep pills in the first place: stress, anxiety, the feeling, in short, that there's "no time, there's never any time, I'll never pass geometry, I'll never get into Stanford, I let everyone down."
I guess what I am trying to say is that I'm so excited, yet, on the other hand, I'm so scared.
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My review of Babes with Blades' The Double is in this week's Time Out Chicago.
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