nine days...

...until spring break.

not that i'm counting, of course.

okay, i'm totally counting.

why? because right now i feel all of the following:

exhausted
overwhelmed
burnt out
frustrated
(and most importantly) way way way WAY behind on my blogging!

i mean, it's been days since i've put up a post! i'm mostly putting up this post now so that it doesn't seem as if i've completely fallen off the face of the earth. i'm still here, but a little busy and preoccupied. here's the short version of what's been going on:

1. krista and i totally ruled the client counseling regionals! well, almost totally ruled -- we came in third. but we were only one point behind the two teams that tied for first and thus went on to the final round. still, third place in a regional competition for a couple of girls who were flying by the seats of their suits the whole time ain't so bad. i felt very good about our performance -- we were brilliant! and our judges loved us! bring on the 2007 competition!

2. jurisprudence paper due on friday morning. ho-ly crap. SFC! my head is currently swimming with positivism and the separation between the law that is and the law that ought to be. i'm convinced that it's all crap, and so instead of write about the h. l. a. hart article that's been assigned, i'm just going to write a five page love letter to my professor. three cheers for blind grading!

3. still having those little tremors in my ankles, and since the brain scans came back all clear, i think i'm going to make an appointment at the student health center and have them run some bloodwork to make sure there's not something else going on. it's totally possible that i'm overdosing on caffeine and i'm deficient in about forty million vitamins. better to find this out now than when i'm jaundiced and cracked out around finals time.

4. i'm trying to figure out how to be patient and live in the moment. i talked about this with the therapist this morning -- the importance of being in the moment and letting go of what i can't control. for 29 years i've been terrible at this. time to teach an old dog a new trick.

5. i won one hell of a scrabble game on sunday. this totally makes up for the thwocking at star wars trivial pursuit that i endured a few weeks ago. but, i also got my ass kicked in a wrestling match that same day... but, hmmm... brains over brawn? yeah, i'll take that.

okay, back to my paper. spring break can't get here quickly enough!