Exam, Happy Days, the Creek, etc

My first exam's finished. I thought it went pretty well, though it's always disconcerting to be one of the first to leave the exam hall. My rationale was there was really nothing more I could write, and if I sat blankly waiting for some odd inspiration to come, I'd start panicking over answers and erasing stuff.

Two interesting facts about nuclear physics, learned during my revision:
- despite what I have written in my lecture notes, it is in fact the "Wood Saxon Potential" and not the "Wood/Spike Potential"

- extended metaphors about an electron being elevated to an excited state and leaving behind an anti-electron and how this compares with Cordelia's ascension in Tomorrow have no place in today's exam answers. (I didn't, before Mary flips.)

In one of those "the forces of the universe have an odd sense of humour" moments, I watched a Happy Days rerun yesterday for the first time in years. The episode was an extended dream sequence where Fonzie was captured by a vampire who wanted to steal his cool. Seriously.

I heard about the Dawson's Creek finale...
( finale )

More revision tonight for my Optics paper, which looks set to be an absolute bitch of an exam.