school break update

Well, it has been a week since the semester ended and I wanted to write a quick update (I really should be getting ready for work).

So far, the grades are: Advanced Fiction [A-], Critical Reading and Writing [B], Photography in Chicago Now! [B], no word yet on my music class.

That is certainly better than I could have hoped for. One of my biggest trials this semester was doing homework in a house where three other people live, one of them being my boyfriend. It wasn't easy. As you might imagine, it was extremely distracting, especially since the best computer officey desk is in hearing distance from the television. The other thing to deal with was my schedule being completely upended due to my change in jobs. I was actually better off, sleeping less, working at 6 am, caffeinated and ready to take on the world at noon. Now I can barely open my eyes before 10, and I'll ream you a new one if you call me before that hour.

I've been reading Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. It's amazing. It's so fluid and pretty and floating and eerie. I am finding myself hypnotized by her writing, by her prose. A lot of things she writes of feel familar, feelings, gestures, people, and yet it was written a very long time ago.

I've been babysitting and working more hours. This week I'm finally going to work one of the scariest shifts at my place of employ. The dreaded morning shift. Apparently, it's the shift that breaks down employees into tears, shouts of curse words, and leaves a bad taste in your mouth. The doctors and nurses in the place line the walls at least fifty people long, and it never seems to end, until about 10:30 am, when there is a brief reprieve, and then it starts again after lunch and a new shift at the hospital begins. I'm looking forward to it.

I spent one whole day just making phone calls and tying up loose ends. It was nice. A big pile of things I had been putting off got done and now the pile taunts me no longer.

Otherwise, I've been enjoying the time off. Sleeping. Eating. Spending time with Eric. Hopefully in the coming weeks, I'll see more of my friends and be able to get hopelessly drunk. At least for one day of my vacation...