They should really ban babies in airplanes! I had not one, but two $#%&"#$ babies who wouldn't stop crying during my 10+ hour flight from Dallas to Brasil. If this happens again on my flight two weeks from today they'd better watch out for them - seriously!
What can I say..feels good to be done! It's time to recover the lost sleep and unplug from a hectic and sometimes stressful schedule.
I'm traveling to PY tomorrow, I'm really excited to leave. It's been a year since I've seen my family, and I'll be home for about three weeks so that should be plenty of time to hang around and relax. I have a couple of things planned during this time, such as reading a hefty pile of articles my advisor gave me as a souvenir for the break, restart going to the gym after a 5 month hiatus, catch a badly-needed tan, spend time with family and friends, etc. I also need to think deeply as to how things have turned out so far, it's easy to lose direction in the whirlwind of things and I've been somewhat jumbled lately.
Oh yeah, so here are my new year's resolutions:
-be more fiscally responsible
-fix my love life
-stop being such a slacker (this one might be the hardest one of them)
We'll see how things go, but I have a feeling I'll accomplish more this coming year now that I have goals.
That's it for now. Hashush has been visiting for a couple of days and it's been a blast. Now we'll have one more night of good fun by going to the Saloon...but I still haven't finished packing!
Oh gosh, hard to believe the first semester of grad school is almost over. The entire semester has been such a whirlwind with almost no time to rest from beginning to end, but it was a great experience. Just like when college began (which now seems forever ago), changes come inevitably as you trudge along. So...what did I learn this time around? I:
-figured out that even after blanking out I can still make it home safely and without losing anything (after several incidents)
-learned that people in grad school can be really evil, especially the profs
-increased my cooking expertise by buying a george foreman grill
-discovered that teaching can be fun (during my organic lab)
-made the right decision by staying in MN!
So yeah, it goes sorta like that. I feel like next semester is going to be much better - classes are going to be more interesting, my schedule will be more relaxed, and there'll be more time to go out and socialize. It's always important to start with optimism right?
I'm leaving for home in less than two weeks, I'm so excited! But before that we have some nasty finals in the horizon...and the first one starts tomorrow at 8!