i spent some time this past weekend re-reading some previous entries on this blog, as you do, and i was struck by how funny i used to be (and so modest, too).  this was once an outlet for all the ridiculous nonsense i witness with abject horror/gratefulness on a daily basis, and this year, i've turned it into a spinning vortex of pity and sadness.  i am now vowing to reverse this trend.  it's time to refocus this lens on the positive in life, and if that means making fun of people i see on the freeway, then so be it.  i can work on being a better person tomorrow.

in other news, having just come off of the worst quarter of grad school thus far*, i am delighting in the days when i can literally do nothing.  in my life, "doing nothing" still amounts to cutting hundreds of little foot bone shapes out of white felt to construct skeleton christmas stockings to benefit our poor, asbestos-ridden anthropology lab while watching "i survived" and working on christmas gifts, but STILL.  i am quasi-relaxed and for the two more weeks i have nowhere to be and nothing of any real importance to do, i am planning on taking full advantage.**



*this is the truth and therefore, despite it being negative, i will let it stay.  this grad school thing has thrown me for a major loop.  there's nothing like being a stable, independent adult and going from steady, paid employment to student loan hell to really make a girl reevaluate her priorities.  turns out mine are getting out of school and back into the workforce as. soon. as. possible.

**and by this i mean: eating tons of candy and wearing my pajamas all day long.