Holiday

Being at home hasn't been so bad. I've been keeping myself pretty busy getting ready for this trip that I'm about to leave for. Flight leaves at 11:59 pm tonite. Land in Puerto Rico around 4 and then in St Croix at 7 45. I will be with one of my best friends and her family, who lives on the island. We should be beachside by noon tomorrow. I am going to try my very hardest not to pull on the plane, in the airport, or on the island. With any luck, I will be back on the second with lots of wonderful pictures and goodies for everyone.

Happy holidays!

Snow

Finals are officially over, grades are being posted, residents are leaving for the winter break, and here I am about to be snowbound in Hartford. I've been pulling a lot this week. I'm going to try and hold off for the next few days the best I can. I go home for break tomorrow, potentially, and I leave for St. Croix on Thursday.

Being at home is going to be tough. I will only be there for a few days and after I get back from STX, I will be babysitting my niece for my sister at their new place. I'm excited to see what it looks like.

New England

After one last really warm night (70 degrees, whaaat?) last week, Connecticut is starting to settle into the cold. It won't be above freezing tomorrow and the wind chill suggests it won't feel any more than about 14. Awesome.

I've been really bad this week. This week marks the last week of classes for the semester. I was finished with classes on Wednesday and I'll be done with finals Tuesday afternoon. I am in Hartford until the 20th. I was really, really stressed about my internship paper last weekend and through Tuesday. Instead of focusing on the words, I could only think about, you know, everything else. I would like that week back where I didn't pull. Not one hair. I want that back. This week was the opposite of that week.

Whack.

I've been trying not to wear my hat, but it's hard because it's starting to get so cold. But that hat is my safety net. It stops everyone from knowing what the top of my head looks like. And the top of my head doesn't look so pretty right now.

Last night I got really sick from the undercooked food at the school cafeteria. I slept for 14 hours. It was incredible. It's the most I've slept in months. Tomorrow I have to speak at a conference for High School students, about AP style and copy editing. I know that's what they're really going to want to listen to at 9am.
/sarcasm

I'm not sure if I'm looking forward to going home. I'll only be there for a few days before I head out again. A week in St. Croix will do me a lot of good. I'll be virtually unreachable to everyone and sitting in the sun with one of my best friends and a drink. What could be better?

Delay.

I has been a seriously interesting week. I didn't mean to neglect updates but it just kind of happened. Last weekend in Atlantic City was out of control. Just know that it was filled with booze, gambling and prostitutes (no, we didn't purchase any escorts for the evening, but we sure saw them and even chatted it up with a few! Nice ladies, for sure.)

This past week has been awful awful awful in several respects. Monday morning I was still feeling pretty tired from the weekend. I thought maybe that's all it was. For whatever reason, I found myself digging through my hair and regressing right back to how i was at home. That lasted until this morning. I'm still not feeling well. I feel the worst today, in fact.

In good news... I lost 10 pounds! No, I didn't really need to do that and I also didn't try to do that.. it just kind of happened. I usually gain weight at school... which I did. But then I lost it all and then some. So I'm feeling really great about that.

I'm still trying to identify triggers and I'm still coming up fairly empty handed. I am not looking forward to being at home for winter break, which begins in 2 weeks. I am looking forward to xmas and new years in St. Croix with one of my best friends, though.

I'll keep it brief today and make a nice juicy entry tomorrow.