Vacation

I've taken a bit of a holiday from blogging.  Obviously. 

The end of the semester was as busy as the ends of the semester usually are.  I survived.  I did very well with everything, which made me very happy.  I ultimately got straight A's, which hasn't happened in a full length semester since my first semester as an undergrad.  I also got a new job.  The head of the department, who is on my committee, sent me an email during finals week asking if I wanted to be a 1/4 time TA in the spring.  Naturally, I accepted.  After talking to the professor about what will be expected of me and learning a bit more about her, I am really excited.  I'll get to sit in on and take notes over a 20th century European history class...which might very well prove helpful if I wind up writing my thesis over post traumatic stress disorder before it was really understood (so, basically, how it was treated and what was thought about it during the Civil War and World War I).  Even if the class doesn't actually delve much into it, the professor specializes in medical history, so she might be a good resource.  Isn't it wonderful when things work out?

I've been reading as much as I can over the break so far.  I'm currently in the middle of three books--One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Brideshead Revisited, and The Happiness Project.  I'm having the best time ever just reading and relaxing.  The last book has made me start to think about reorganizing things a bit.  I got into some pretty bad time management and behavioral cycles last semester and I want to try to do better in the spring.  I'm going to finish reading the book before I make any definite plans, but I foresee a happiness project-type project in my future.

I will be back in a few days and will begin posting a lot more regularly.  I really liked that one month a couple of summers ago when I posted every day.  Except, hopefully, I won't be complaining about work every day like I did then.