I am already very busy, but it's not a big deal yet. I am used to working and then going home with nothing to do. So now I simply make note of everything I have to do, and do it--no procrastinating. 

I found something out today. My advisor's other student, it turns out, went to the University of Minnesota like I did. And then she worked in a non-profit exactly in the same neighborhood that I had been working in--but in the late 90s. I miss that neighborhood, even though it was poor and had lots of problems. That park, Powderhorn Park, with the lake, is why I am here. I would walk around that lake everyday and think I couldn't keep doing this, having to go back inside afterwards. I had to do something that worked for environmental health and would give me some flexibility to be outside sometimes. I remember the individual trees there, and the ducks and the geese. Minneapolis has so many lakes. If I didn't live by these gorges (a creek is just a block away!), and I didn't live by the sea, I would have to move.

It is so nice to not get yelled at by men constantly, though. Ithaca is amazing in that regard. Even in the lower-income parts (which I actually like more, more character).