Mondificent

First day of class today. I think I'm really going to enjoy this semester. I have to talk to my research adviser, and figure out what exactly I'm going to be working on, but other than that...things look good. I talked to my academic adviser today to make sure I'm *really* on track to graduate - it's so strange to pull up my academic audit and see all of the requirements actually accounted for. I think I'll be glad that I'm staying around for the spring even though I don't actually need it...and having the end in sight is an amazing feeling. When I was a freshman I don't think I honestly believed that I'd even make it this far...

I went to Mass tonight, too. There's something (even if it's just a romantic notion, and an entirely emotionally based construct) that I love about taking the 30 minutes at the end of the day to just go and sit in that little chapel. It's comfortable, and familiar, and it's an excuse for me to just be and think for awhile, without worrying about anything. I wouldn't enjoy it nearly so much if the priests weren't so good at delivering rational, thoughtful homilies, though...

I mailed in a check to pay for my citation, too. I noticed that they actually spelled my name wrong on the ticket (adding insult to injury, right? After the way I was treated in the first place...) so I included a relatively polite letter with my check pointing out the error. ("Relatively polite" means I replaced the "Maybe you could use some of the extra funds you added onto my $25 fine for an officer education program where you teach them simple tasks such as transcribing a name from a license to a piece of paper" sentence with something a bit more reasonable along the lines of "Look guys, why can't we all just get along and why can't you be a bit nicer, okay?"...)

Anyhow. Life is good.