I’m back from the folks’ house and still getting my bearings: despite the fact that I was gone for almost exactly a week, I feel as though I’ve been away for a (perhaps unusually long) weekend, and that today is Monday. It’s also a pleasantly disorienting feeling to be using a Mac again - the parental computer is an ancient laptop running 98. My own keyboard feels strange and too big, and it’s taking a little while to remember all my hotkeys. Incidentally, although I got Panther for Christmas, I haven’t installed it yet - that’s one of the many, many things I’m supposed to do during the three weeks I have left before classes start again.

Other things I have to do during this time include three different freelance web projects, and one non-freelance top secret web project that I’ll tell you about soon. I have to plan and execute my move back to Manhattan (which includes the actual packing and moving, of course, but also the cancelling and opening of various accounts, changing of addresses for everything, and so on). I have to do some furniture shopping associated with the move and figure out what to do with some other furniture that doesn’t need to be moved. I really ought to start working on my thesis, although I’m not kidding myself that that’s likely to happen over break. I have to get my Massachusetts license transferred to a New York license, because seriously I’ve been here for almost five years now and my MA one expired a while ago.

Things I had to do over break that I’ve already done, however, included those dentist and optometrist visits and getting a haircut. I also needed a new pair of shoes, but thanks to a post-holiday sale at Berk’s in Cambridge I now have a new pair of shoes, two new pairs of boots, and a replacement pair of Danskos. I also badly needed a break from the city, and I’ve certainly had that. But it’s good to be back in Brooklyn (for another two weeks, anyway).