Normally this is when I look back on the past week and feel disgusted at how shamefully I wasted my spring break (except for freshman year, when I didn’t mind so much because I had mono). This year, though, I feel like I’ve gotten a reasonable amount of work done for what’s really supposed to be a vacation - I have a bunch of reading to finish up tomorrow and a stack of quizzes to grade, but on the other hand I’ve already done a bunch of other reading, and tackled the biggest portion of the longest philosophy paper I’ve ever written. I got new furniture and apartmenty things at IKEA and finished my first scarf, and I feel I’ve really honed my zombie-killing skills.

I’ve never really felt the need to go somewhere hot and humid and filled with sweaty, drunken college kids over spring break. After all, I could just go to a club in midtown for that.

The big things left for this semester are a couple of programs for a Java class, the rest of a project for a database class, one paper and one final each for my two philosophy classes, and revision of the dreaded thesis. I’ve got about eight weeks for all of that (four for the thesis). I think I can manage it, and as long as I don’t flub anything too awfully, I’ll be wearing an ugly purple gown in a couple of months and that will be that.