Easing

This break is all about transitions.

Once again, I am getting ready to say goodbye to breaks such as this forever. I'm pretty used to making these tear-filled fair-wells as I made them a few years back when I entered the working world. I had my last summer, my last spring break, my last winter break and all the wonderful free time you get as a student perk.

Since I re-entered the student world I've had a whole new round of fantastic breaks. I've managed to squeeze quite a bit of joy out of them but I knew when they were gone I would be able to survive without them. I crammed in a bunch of travel and house projects every chance I could but the inevitable end-of-the-road has been coming for a while now and I've made my peace. Sort of.

I've started the gradual process of easing myself back into school. So many diseases and drugs that I used to know backwards and forwards already have been reduced to that warm, itchy feeling you get in your head when you almost remember something but can't quite catch it. Luckily, the reboot process is much quicker than the initial loading time so I'll be ready for the next onslaught soon enough.

I've eased myself into the sleeping patterns of a twenty-year-old again, and now I have to reverse a bit to happy medium. Thanks to Naomi's awful schedule of late I tackled all of my finals material (see my previous blog for a picture of the stack) at the unwholesome hour of 5:15am. I've adjusted over break to a 2:30am - 1o:30am sleep arrangement and now I need to recalibrate. Thankfully I'm running out of things to do late in the evening so this won't be hard.

The biggest part of this break, however, is definitely my farewell to alone time. I realize that, beginning in March, I probably won't be alone for the better part of 20 years. I'm strangely comfortable with the thought. At least I won't ever be bored.