So I'm BACK. It feels odd, but in a good way. I neither dreaded nor was overjoyed at the prospect of returning to school. I just woke up yesterday morning, shrugged and said "hmm..back to DC today." I've gotten to catch up with some people and as I get into the swing of things, once again I will probably be overjoyed at the fact that I'm back in the city.

Break was good. I got to hang out w/ best friend A LOT (aka pretty much constantly from Dec26-Jan3) as well as see the YC crew (much love to y'all) and I got to spend some quality time with my family. I'll never entirely be OK around Aunt Diane again, and I had to grit my teeth and force myself to hug her at Christmas Eve, but other then that it was a pleasant, enjoyable holiday. Sometime in between all the insanity I worked about 43 hrs so I should have a nice pay check being sent to me in a couple of weeks and I took a riding lesson w/ Erin. Rode Oscar (17hh dark bay Thoroughbred gelding). Very cool horse, he's the spitting image of Clyde (wtf is up w/ me and horses who have weird, very boring names?!) and riding him truly gave me hope for Clyde's future. Oscar was responsive, eager and athletic and I think that with some work Clyde can be better a better hunter/jumper then him (Oscar has no style whatsoever...he can jump anything put in front of him but it's not necessarily a pretty picture). Ok. End rant. *collective sigh of relief*

First day of classes. 3rd World Lit seems absolutely amazing and I'm very excited about that (not so excited about the prospect of reading Heart of Darkness by Thursday but c'est la vie). Statistics won't be insanely difficult, and my prof is amusing but I nearly fell asleep. This does not bode well for an entertaining semester.

Tomorrow I've got Critical Issues in Justice, College Writing Seminar and Macroeconomics. CIJ and CWS look interesting, Macro not so much but I'll get through it.

And a quote from Lis' as Sarah and I screamed in fear at her driving..."don't worry guys...I'm all over this..."