home again, jiggity jig
being home is great.
just bought another plane ticket for sunday morning instead of thursday evening in case i end up needing/wanting to stay longer. luckily southwest is really great about refunds. and i may want to be here longer since the next few days are unlikely to be relaxing.
getting there on midterms... feeling pretty good about my philosophy mini-essays. working under less overwhelming stress => better quality of work. extensions are a blessing and a curse, though. hopefully i will get to spend some more quality time with the 'rents later this week, without the midterms hanging over my head. must... power... through...
weird, being home i rarely let my friends know ahead of time that i'm coming. it's unlikely they'll be here anyway, as fall breaks aren't a common thing among the schools they attend, but even when they all went to school in town i was bad about contacting them. i may reach out a bit, depending on how i'm feeling later this week. but mostly it's good to sleep, eat my mom's delicious food, listen to oldies rock with my dad, rant about politics with my parents, and enjoy the incredible weather. it's like 75 and wonderfully sunny. the birds are adorable and playing on the deck, rustling the leaves. i always forgot how lucky we are in california. but then the portland rain makes me appreciate it more.
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in other random-ness (i don't know how on earth i come across these things), this woman is crazy. trying to get her kid to eat vegetables by making them into some sort of spherical molecular-ized ball of vegetable essence. can you say total yuppie with no parenting skills? maybe too judgemental, but it's a funny read - that is, if you want to read something random that will then make you ask 'why did i just spend __ minutes of my life on that?' and yet still have you thinking about it the next day.
just bought another plane ticket for sunday morning instead of thursday evening in case i end up needing/wanting to stay longer. luckily southwest is really great about refunds. and i may want to be here longer since the next few days are unlikely to be relaxing.
getting there on midterms... feeling pretty good about my philosophy mini-essays. working under less overwhelming stress => better quality of work. extensions are a blessing and a curse, though. hopefully i will get to spend some more quality time with the 'rents later this week, without the midterms hanging over my head. must... power... through...
weird, being home i rarely let my friends know ahead of time that i'm coming. it's unlikely they'll be here anyway, as fall breaks aren't a common thing among the schools they attend, but even when they all went to school in town i was bad about contacting them. i may reach out a bit, depending on how i'm feeling later this week. but mostly it's good to sleep, eat my mom's delicious food, listen to oldies rock with my dad, rant about politics with my parents, and enjoy the incredible weather. it's like 75 and wonderfully sunny. the birds are adorable and playing on the deck, rustling the leaves. i always forgot how lucky we are in california. but then the portland rain makes me appreciate it more.
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in other random-ness (i don't know how on earth i come across these things), this woman is crazy. trying to get her kid to eat vegetables by making them into some sort of spherical molecular-ized ball of vegetable essence. can you say total yuppie with no parenting skills? maybe too judgemental, but it's a funny read - that is, if you want to read something random that will then make you ask 'why did i just spend __ minutes of my life on that?' and yet still have you thinking about it the next day.