quarter one done

Well, I turned in my last final project earlier today, meaning that I am DONE with this quarter. I almost--almost--made it through finals week without crying. I was doing so well, pacing myself, and then yesterday I felt super stupid trying to decipher science-y talk and ruined my sob-free streak yesterday walking home from my study session at the tea shop. Oh, crying in public. I'm okay, really. That moment didn't last long and was followed by ordering tropical cocktails and shopping for over-sized sweaters with one of my best friends. I'm not against having fun during finals week.

When I wasn't crying dramatic tears of frustration, I actually had fun with the project I was working on this weekend, especially when I ignored that I was doing it for a grade. I had chosen to help Joe do some research for his sci-fi writing, focusing on his request to find a peer-reviewed article about weather patterns and temperatures on tidally-locked planets within a Goldilocks zone. (Yeah. Nerd.) After some false starts, I'm rather confident that I found he was looking for, and I feel smarter having learned a little about what needs to be happening atmospherically for a planet to be habitable. I'm looking forward to learning every time someone asks me to help them find information. (Who's next?)

But for now, it will be crafting, cooking, baking, drinking, overeating, oversleeping, writing, reading, reading, reading.