I'll just be over here reading.

My summer quarter has finally finished (well, except for some grading), and people keep asking me how long my break is until the next quarter. It's hard to answer that question because I feel like I don't have a "break," exactly, but steady reading and note-taking work that will continue up until I take my exams. This is not to say I won't have time for fun, but only that I won't have that fun neatly blocked off in a couple of weeks without work. I'm actually okay with this, because the only reason I have no breaks between classes is because I have no classes, and won't have to deal with the quick stress-out-then-crash cycle of the quarter. (Well, at least not until the exams themselves . . .) Instead, I get the chance to train for something larger and much more geared to what I want to eventually research and teach.

Moreover, as Caitlin and others have rightly pointed out, my job is to read right now. I have to do something I love and chose as a vocation. Complaining about that would require the squeaky accompaniment of a really, really tiny violin.













Tinier!