more teachers' dirty looks.

we are back. at school. and magically, this quarter is shaping up to be as difficult as the last one was restful. (not that it was all that restful. just, on the balance, so much better than the year before it.) i'm a research assistant this quarter, plus there's this scary test all the first years have to take, an oral exam over the material covered so far in our seminars. if you pass, you get to keep going. if you don't, you don't. eep.

i'm not truly worried (although not completely not worried, either), but rather apprehensive about the amount of labor the prep for this exam will take. weekly study sessions. constant review. it's formidable enough that i dropped my language class. i can take it later, and one less stressor this quarter is a good thing.

also, it's sixty-eight degrees outside.