The joy of the academic schedule is the "time off" around the holidays. As most of us find, however, breaks aren't really breaks, just breaks from some kinds of work that allow us to get other kinds of work done (and which we have been putting off for far too long).
This year, however, I am really looking forward to the holiday break, and spending a lot of time with my family. Yes, I get crazy because people follow you to the bathroom to keep talking to you when you are just trying to be alone fo a few moments by faking intestinal distress. And about every other day I end up bitching at someone in frustration. But my mom and I have already talked about baking some of my grandmother's more obscure cookies. I'm sure there's going to be ham and potato salad and sweat tea on Christmas.
Mmmmm. Sweet tea. Not "sweetened" tea. Sweet tea. Mmmmmm.
Even more than drinking so much iced tea I won't be able to sleep from the caffeine, the perfect weather for drinking it is also on my wish list. I'm not leaving for almost two weeks, but the ten day forecast shows highs ranging between 78 and 82 and no lows below 60. And I am hoping it's going to be hot. I'd settle for warm.
Hell, right now? I'd settle for not having ice on the inside of my bedroom window, and for it to be something that isn't the 9 freaking degrees it is outside this morning.
Posted by binky at December 6, 2007 09:27 AM | TrackBack | Posted to Random Thoughts