I am high now!!!
I don't think any legal or illegal drugs could get me in a state of euphoria resembling that of a presentation held at the university (not that I'm going to test it to make sure;)). I could present the work I have done so far for my final paper (about the German newspaper coverage of the American Civil War) in a course today.
And really, I think this presentation holding is something that runs in my blood.
One thing I take special pride in is the fact that while nobody had noticed the time of the lesson ended when I finished my presentation (and we are talking of a lesson ending at 7:30pm, the time when students just want to get home at last). The discussion then started and it took another 15 minutes before someone noticed that we were overrunning the end of the lesson. I really had managed to get people so interested in the topic that they had forgotten about their interest to get home as soon as possible
Some even stayed after that to further talk to me about it. And I am really very grateful to my fellow students who not only did me a great honor with their interest but also gave me some really helpful feedback which I think will help me to get my further proceedings outlined more clearly
Like all that was not enough, my lecturer made a remark suggesting that it was a topic that could be further elaborated in a dissertation. The first official allusion (though allusion it remains until the work is done) that I may be offered the chance for a doctorate at the university after finishing my current paper
