Tasmanian Devil with window spray and a rag

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Well, finals have come again. Spring term classes ended yesterday and finals start tomorrow. Cleaning checks are on Thursday, and I'm going home to party with my friends the same day. I spent the night cleaning my FHE brothers' apartment and man, that was fun! No joke. There is a very satisfying feeling that comes when you leave a kitchen looking almost beautiful where before, it looked like a very small tornado could have come through. I maybe should have been studying instead, but it was really tempting (for many reasons) to go clean with my roommates. And we had a very good time. When we barged into the apartment, our FHE brothers were kind of confused for a second, but then quickly understood what we were doing and left. 15 minutes later one of our roommates whom we didn't know was home comes into their apartment and tells us that she was in her room watching a movie and heard our FHE brothers talking. She thought they were just talking to us so she didn't think much of it. When she went out to the kitchen and it was only them, they kicked her out and she came and found us cleaning their apartment. In the end we both had pretty clean kitchens. :)

So, now, I will go to bed, get some rest, then finish studying after work and go take a test. Wish me luck!!

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