Better than I'm supposed to be
This has been a really interesting week.
In some ways, I feel like I'm cheating at life because my finals period has been so easy. It's mainly because last week was AWFUL and I had half my finals due at the end of classes, which was bad. However, the day after classes ended was awesome and I've been swell ever since. I took my calc exam on Sunday (what a relief!), and I'm not tooo worried about Geology tomorrow (which I really have to get on, though). I feel like everyone around me is withering away or going up in flames and I'm standing in the middle. Or sort of sitting in the middle. On a lawn chair. With a smoothie.
It's not that I have it completely easy--I still had a jury to play (it's sort of like a graded audition, so mildly stressful), a concert tonight, and a big exam. But for some reason it's just rolling off of me. Like I'm laminated or something. Awesome. I can totally handle this. You should all go get laminated right away.
I got some kind of bad news the other day that turned out to be emotionally stressful, but it's fine really. I just need to get. over. myself. and go home and I will be fine. It is going to be so good to see my friends and the city. I don't really miss home, since I've already been back there three times this semester. But I was reading a short story yesterday (Katie you told me about it!) and it was full of Boston references and it made me so homesick...and then there was a reference to something called the Mapparium, which I had never heard of and is apparently in the Christian Science Center. I walk past there all the time, so I think I'm going to go there this break. Apparently it's sort of like being on the inside of a globe, and everything is stained glass. There's a bridge in the middle. It sounds exquisite!
Things that I will do a lot of this winter break:
Reading (for pleasure, of course)
Ice skating, hopefully
Practicing for the concerto competition
Going to hear live music
Taking walks
Taking pictures, developing prints. If Commonwealth will let me use the dark room.
In some ways, I feel like I'm cheating at life because my finals period has been so easy. It's mainly because last week was AWFUL and I had half my finals due at the end of classes, which was bad. However, the day after classes ended was awesome and I've been swell ever since. I took my calc exam on Sunday (what a relief!), and I'm not tooo worried about Geology tomorrow (which I really have to get on, though). I feel like everyone around me is withering away or going up in flames and I'm standing in the middle. Or sort of sitting in the middle. On a lawn chair. With a smoothie.
It's not that I have it completely easy--I still had a jury to play (it's sort of like a graded audition, so mildly stressful), a concert tonight, and a big exam. But for some reason it's just rolling off of me. Like I'm laminated or something. Awesome. I can totally handle this. You should all go get laminated right away.
I got some kind of bad news the other day that turned out to be emotionally stressful, but it's fine really. I just need to get. over. myself. and go home and I will be fine. It is going to be so good to see my friends and the city. I don't really miss home, since I've already been back there three times this semester. But I was reading a short story yesterday (Katie you told me about it!) and it was full of Boston references and it made me so homesick...and then there was a reference to something called the Mapparium, which I had never heard of and is apparently in the Christian Science Center. I walk past there all the time, so I think I'm going to go there this break. Apparently it's sort of like being on the inside of a globe, and everything is stained glass. There's a bridge in the middle. It sounds exquisite!
Things that I will do a lot of this winter break:
Reading (for pleasure, of course)
Ice skating, hopefully
Practicing for the concerto competition
Going to hear live music
Taking walks
Taking pictures, developing prints. If Commonwealth will let me use the dark room.