Done! Is! Good!
[Deep sigh of relief] So, some of you may have noticed that my life has been completely swallowed by The Financial Crisis That Ate New York's Economy. Some others of you I think also know that I had a rough semester at school, since the Jewish holidays in the fall meant that I took a half load for the first half of the semester, but then a double load in the last half. I am happy to report that, six group projects, four homework assignments, three professor evaluations, two final exams, one paper on the Great Depression and its implications for the current financial crisis and a partridge in a pear tree later, I am officially DONE DONE DONE with the semester from hell. Whoo hoo! I still have four semesters left before I finish my degree (we take summers here, so that means I graduate not this coming May but the May after, for those of you keeping track at home) but right now I have SIX GLORIOUS WEEKS with no school, which I will spend baking cookies for the office and going to Israel to see my sister. And then I will take a nice normal spring semester, and a light summer semester, and then I am in the home stretch. Whew!
I also have a new job, or more exactly a new job description. I have not left my company, my division or even my office, but I have a new boss and new responsibilities, and I am very excited about the change. I think it's going to make this coming year a very very VERY good year.
So I think I have blown some of you off recently; I think I've ignored some e-mails and some phone calls, and I apologize. I'm back and getting saner now, and I'd like to talk to all of you. Feel free to jumpstart the process by e-mailing me first, but even if you don't I will get to you.
So, what else am I going to do with myself now that I have time to sleep and eat and in general be happy? Well, I am going to finish Crime and Punishment - six weeks ago I abandoned it, 400 pages into its 520 page glory, on my nightstand until I'd finished with classes. I've already started baking - I made chocolate chip cookies twice and oatmeal raisin once, and I have plans for Viennese crescents and my husband's favorite frosted sugar cookies, and I'd like to attempt meringues and ryenna's lemon icebox cake. Also bread. I'd like to bake bread. I'm going to try to get a run in while it's still cold - I'm going to wait until spring to get back to my normal schedule, but I'd love to do a cold weather jog just to feel alive, you know? And I'm going to go back to menu planning and eating dinner with my husband instead of eating the same thing (kasha with onions and mushrooms, topped with a veggie burger and an over easy egg) EVERY NIGHT when I drag myself in at 10PM from class. And I'd like to finish watching the second season of Lost already. And some of the movies that are taking up space on my DVR. And I'd like to reorganize the second bedroom so we can put my husband's drawing table together. And I'd like to make some New Year's resolutions. I guess that's coming up fast. Must ponder.
Whew. Hard to express how glad I am to be done with school for the semester. You know that old story about the guy who goes to the Rabbi and says "Rabbi, my house is too small! I can't think!" And the Rabbi tells him to bring first the chickens, and then the goats, and then the cow, and then the horse, and then his mother-in-law into the house too? And then tells him to take them all out again, and suddenly his house isn't so small? That's how I feel right now. It's a wonderful feeling.
I also have a new job, or more exactly a new job description. I have not left my company, my division or even my office, but I have a new boss and new responsibilities, and I am very excited about the change. I think it's going to make this coming year a very very VERY good year.
So I think I have blown some of you off recently; I think I've ignored some e-mails and some phone calls, and I apologize. I'm back and getting saner now, and I'd like to talk to all of you. Feel free to jumpstart the process by e-mailing me first, but even if you don't I will get to you.
So, what else am I going to do with myself now that I have time to sleep and eat and in general be happy? Well, I am going to finish Crime and Punishment - six weeks ago I abandoned it, 400 pages into its 520 page glory, on my nightstand until I'd finished with classes. I've already started baking - I made chocolate chip cookies twice and oatmeal raisin once, and I have plans for Viennese crescents and my husband's favorite frosted sugar cookies, and I'd like to attempt meringues and ryenna's lemon icebox cake. Also bread. I'd like to bake bread. I'm going to try to get a run in while it's still cold - I'm going to wait until spring to get back to my normal schedule, but I'd love to do a cold weather jog just to feel alive, you know? And I'm going to go back to menu planning and eating dinner with my husband instead of eating the same thing (kasha with onions and mushrooms, topped with a veggie burger and an over easy egg) EVERY NIGHT when I drag myself in at 10PM from class. And I'd like to finish watching the second season of Lost already. And some of the movies that are taking up space on my DVR. And I'd like to reorganize the second bedroom so we can put my husband's drawing table together. And I'd like to make some New Year's resolutions. I guess that's coming up fast. Must ponder.
Whew. Hard to express how glad I am to be done with school for the semester. You know that old story about the guy who goes to the Rabbi and says "Rabbi, my house is too small! I can't think!" And the Rabbi tells him to bring first the chickens, and then the goats, and then the cow, and then the horse, and then his mother-in-law into the house too? And then tells him to take them all out again, and suddenly his house isn't so small? That's how I feel right now. It's a wonderful feeling.