Ok, so while I’m gonna date this so that it coincides with the end of the quarter, I’m actually writing this in a lot later. Anyone who bothers to check this and read it (and doesn’t decide to slit their wrists with how depressing it is) will know I haven’t updated it in months, so the next few entries are going to be clumped together. The stupid thing about it is, of course, that I wrote little notes about what I did during the day for ages, I just didn’t bother putting it into actual entries on here. Ah well, here goes.

The end the quarter was a very stressful time for me, as I had a lot of work to do. I spent a lot of time in my office working on assignments, not sleeping very well or very much and generally being stressed about not being able to get things to work. I had a couple of presentations that I did in there as well, which went pretty well for one and ok for the other.

I went out with Christian, my German office mate, on his last day here for food and drinks. I also met up with Jenny and had ‘coffee’ with her before I left which was good. I had dinner with Greg and a young relative of his (nephew, I think), I also managed to lock myself out of my apartment (right before I’m about to leave, go figure). Luckily this happens all the time and I just went and got the spare keys from the Terry desk. Somewhere in there I saw the Da Vinci Code and X-men 3 when I was trying to un-fry my brain. At some point I also re-watched Romeo Must Die, which is a movie I really like. When I was packing things up, Greg let me store a bunch of stuff in his attic (like my bedding and so on) and I also shipped some stuff back to Anastasia so I wouldn’t have to carry everything, although I did end up carrying a lot anyway.

Seattle had a whole bunch of rain during this time, and I mean it rained more than usual. Rain here is usually not that bad, but it started to come down a fair bit during these last few weeks I was here. Not as bad as down in Florida, but still pretty bad for Seattle. Also, when I was working with Nate on our presentation/assignment late at night at some point, I can’t remember who said it, but someone said: “Ah procrastination, the mother of tangential creativity.” I can’t even remember what the context was now, but I thought it was funny and wrote it down.

After all that I was still very stressed about a project that I spent a lot of time on and couldn’t get to work. The professor gave me an extension after I had demonstrated what I had done and told my TA about the absurd amount of work I was doing (apparently academic insanity can be a mitigating factor). Anyway, I still had to leave, as I was headed to North Carolina for a conference and then down to Florida for the summer. Unfortunately due to how my exchange works, I can’t be enrolled over the summer. I had explained that to Brian, my adviser, briefly in person before I left and then a bit more in detail in email, although he was busy travelling off to some places as well, so I didn’t really hear back from him.

Still stressed out but all packed up, I bussed over to the airport, lots of bags and all. I was off to North Carolina for my conference, Amanda’s graduation (that’s Jen’s cousin, for your information) and to see everyone again.