Back and Forth Across the Pond

The end of the year, that is. And the first decade of the second millenium. Damn, has it really been ten years?! Hard to believe. It's nearing 7:30 a.m. as I write this and it's another cold morning. It was 34 when we got up, but it's forecast to get around 67 today. That will be nice. An element broke in our central heating about two years ago, so we suffer through the winter with space heaters. I've got a parabolic sitting about a yard from me at the moment. It gives a nice laser-beam of heat. At the moment, Valenica has parked her furry butt right in front of it. She doesn't care much for the cold, either. School starts in five days. Five DAYS! I swear it was just yesterday that I was looking forward to the holiday break and all the tasks I'd get done during my down time. And now the semester is just five days away and that to-do list isn't all that much shorter than before the holiday. But that's the life of a grad student - a history grad, anyway. I...

Okay, so it's still a few days before Christmas. But since I don't post regularly, anymore, I thought I'd extend the holiday wishes now. Otherwise, it's liable to be March and then it'd be a bit late (or insanely early - take your pick). At this moment, I'm sitting in my ice cold livingroom in front of the new parabolic heater (that Valencia has discovered and is hogging). I should be on campus. The semester's over (got an A in each of my classes - so the horrible Spring semester is officially a fluke), but I work better in the office. I have at least a chapter of my thesis to write over this break, so it's important I be where I'm not distracted. But I allowed myself to get dehydrated and my kidney hurts as a result, so I opted to stay home and work here. So far, I've spent a stupidly long amount of time playing Facebook games and am now writing this blog. Not a lick of work has happened on my thesis. This is a very bad thing, but hardly surpris...