break

Today I'm at my parents house, on spring break nursing a God-awful cold given to me by my sister. It's awesome. I forced myself to drink an entire glass of water this morning before I could have coffee. Yesterday my nose was raw from excessive contact with kleenex. But enough complaining. I don't have to go to class or teach at all this week... just practice, which I want to do, and yet it's so much easier to sit here and procrastinate. I've successfully taken the dog on a walk, made coffee, eaten breakfast, and completed an online crossword puzzle. All before 11 am :) This is what spring break is about.

And I have to say it's way easier to waste my days away here at my parents' house than it is in Columbia... I just get so bored and depressed in a house all by myself. There is plenty to distract here.

I'm also on a mission to dig up my old French materials from when I studied the language back in high school, though this might prove a difficult task given the state of our house right now. Anyway, as interesting as German is, it's not exactly the language of choice for me... sehr schwer! It's definitely a goal of mine over the next couple of months to re-introduce myself to the beauties of the French language I once understood with such facility. I rely far too heavily on online translators and dictionaries at this point, something I hope to change.

And I'm half-done with my research for Dr. Budds this semester: 3/6 papers turned in. Granted, I still have to do corrections for those first 3 papers, but hey, first drafts are at least 70% of the work. As Mama says: bit by bit, little by little.