happy changes, break

I didn't do any school work all week until today, and I didn't do that much. I feel so good, I needed the do-nothing break so bad. I really needed it or I would have quit. As it was, I was skipping class like mad. My Weds classes got canceled and I skipped my Tues class (have to get notes from a classmate) so I had almost a week :) I am so happy. 

Over break (I will be in Ithaca the last two weeks) my advisor will be gone. We ran out of time to set-up a greenhouse experiment, so I will just do whatever her lab tech says to do, maybe analyze some data (good practice for when I have to do my own). She is super nice and not a workoholic like my advisor so that will actually be nice. It'll be just like working a regular job and I will have time to do lit review (I always have to do lit review, always. For the rest of my life, said Anu). 

One week of classes left! Two weeks for finals! And at the vegan meet-up today, we decided on a holiday party, it will be a day or two before I leave for Mpls and I'm hosting! Sadly Roman will be gone then (he leaves 2 or 3 days before me). What a relief. I can study now,  being able to see the end. It was just unbearable before, I really hated it and was too sleep deprived.

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Also my mom said she hated it when she moved, too, and it's normal and OK but I will feel different when I leave. I know she was depressed when she went to OR (in part because they get no sun) so I believe her. She would say if she thought it was just worthless, she implied that about high school (we went to the same high school and neither of us liked it! We handled it differently though). It's nice to get good advice from mom--the previous few times I had talked to her, she wasn't very helpful, so I was pleasantly surprised.