It's the Most Christmasy Time of the Year!

Alright. As of 7:32 CST today, Becca's Christmas season has officially begun - I'm listening to "All I Want for Christmas is You" for the first time this year.

(Aside - in addition to starting my season, this song also reminds me of Ryan Whalen, and how he once put this song on at a party at his place in like, mid-October or something, and we all went insane and danced and sang our faces off because it was the Best Idea Ever.)

Madison All Over Again

I'm back! Today is the first day of the semester, and while I don't have class, I'm trying to get a strong start so I'm holed up in Memorial reading articles for this week's classes. Soon a gym trip will follow, then more reading, then digging my car out of the snow to run errands, then a bedtime of 11:30. 

School is back in session.

I had a phenomenal break, although I won't write about it in detail now...suffice to say I spent some incredible time with my family. It was the first vacation where Kitten and I were really bestest friends, and we talked until late in the night, visited Julio, watched Duck Tales and generally had a blast. I won 120 bucks at a casino while visiting my aunt, and I spent New Year's Eve in DC with Justin and his crew from home, which was loud and busy and drunken and fun.

I spent New Year's Day with Con. Phenomenal. And exciting. And I'm smiling just thinking about it.

Alright, back to my article. While I was feeling really unready to reenter academia after the month out of it, I'm finding that, while I don't *love* reading these things, I am still interested, and the passion I was feeling last term is still there, lurking under the surface, and I know it will be back soon.

It's going to be quite the semester.