A relaxing weekend, finally

I'm grateful for this weekend, as I feel like I've finally been able to recharge a bit. I didn't have class on Friday, so I alternated working on a paper with reading, and then watched the last episode of Battlestar Galactica...it wasn't the killing spree Brian expected, but I have mixed feelings about the actual end. It seemed kind of rushed and not well thought-out, and had a lot of holes in it.

Saturday I cleaned my apartment, and then went with Brian to Olive Garden (he had a gift certificate left over from Christmas), and then to the new Durham Performing Arts Center to see Fiddler on the Roof, with Topol as Tevye (the guy that played him in the movie, and has since done so on stage more than 2,500 times!! He was really funny, and kind of like an Israeli Sean Connery). Even though we were in the next-to-last row (literally), I really enjoyed it, and want to go back next year to see Wicked.

Today I slept in (till 11! This is the latest I've slept in in at least a year, not counting that week in January that I was sick and slept nearly constantly), made cookies, and watched the new show Brian's got me hooked on, Jericho--which has been off the air for a few years but is new to me, anyway. Thankfully there were only 2 seasons, so I can't get TOO hooked on it, but it's about a nuclear holocaust, and as such is a bit freaky.

This week I have to go the Health Access Interdisplinary Case Conference, with a bunch of med/pharmacy/public health/nursing students, which sounds interesting but is from 6-9:30, after we have class till 5, so will probably just be painful. I'm also interviewing for my new internship on Thursday, which I'm nervous about, even though I'm sure it will go fine. I also think i'm getting sick, which is just obnoxious. I also have to start thinking about writing my 4 final papers (one per class), as I don't want them all to sneak up on me at once. Only 6 weeks left of class, thank goodness. I'm more than ready for it to be over. I also just found out my dad is having neck surgery next week, which I'm nervous about, plus my niece is really sick, and has blisters in her throat from running a high fever for days. Needless to say I have more on my mind than school....

Weeks left at JFS: 4.
Weeks left of school: 6

Vanishing spring break...it's magic

Spring break is winding to a close (alas!), and I am seriously dreading going back to school. I know we only have a few weeks left, but a LOT of assignments stand between me and the end of the semester. As the woman who was cleaning my teeth on Monday said, "There's always a light at the end of the tunnel...but sometimes you need night vision goggles to see it". As I've said before, I've basically stopped caring and aren't getting anything out of my classes.

This week has been...ok. I know it's my next-t0-last spring break ever (which is kind of sad in itself), but I've spent it going to doctor's appointments (dentist, allergy, eye) and going back and forth between my parent's houses, as usual. I HAVE done a bit of wedding planning though...we're working on setting a date (we have to meet with a priest first, so I'll be sure to post it when the date becomes official). That kind of made the fact that I'm getting married in a little over a year more real...up to now, since we've really done nothing to plan, it hasn't really been. But it does make me realize a.) how much planning I really have to do, and b.) how much I'm stressed out about where I'll end up after the wedding. And what I'll be doing there. I hate not being able to control things...

Weeks left at JFS: 5 (and not 5 full weeks,either. I'm so over on hours I can take some time off, so i'm leaving early some afternoons.)

Happy March

It is March at last, and I can't say I'm sad to see February go. There are a lot of good things about March, such as:

• Spring break! Even though I'm not going on a cruise this year like I did last year, it'll be nice to have a break from school/JFS
• Fiddler on the Roof! I have tickets to see it at the new Durham Performing Arts Center, and the guy playing Tevye ( the dad) is the same guy that played him in the movie.
• The beginning of spring (although I can't say I can see it yet, since it's supposed to SNOW tomorrow!!)
• Only 3 assignments due (instead of 6 like last month), and I'm almost done with one of them

But there are a few bad ones too, such as :

• I'm picking up a new shift at work (instead of getting another job), and I've heard the family is really hard to work with.
• I have a LOT to do at JFS this month, including two Friday night events.
  
• March is a really long month.
• BSG ends, finally, and it doesn't look like an ending I'll like.

Overall, I'm hoping March will be a better month than February, but it looks like it will be just as busy. I'm just glad the semester is halfway over; I've kind of stopped caring about school, as everything this semester is either a.) something I already know or b.)something I don't care to learn. I did find out that I got the internship I wanted for next year, at the NC Council for Developmental Disabilities. It sounds pretty good, even though it is in Raleigh and will be, as they say at JFS, a shlep (ie, a long haul).

Weeks til Spring Break: 1 (hooray!).
Also, weeks left at JFS: 6. (ahh! lots to do, little time to do it!)