thoughts on winter break

My long-ass winter break is, thankfully, almost over. I get to go to school even earlier now (I was already going back earlier than most everybody I know for a recruitment workshop... but that's a story for a different time). But now I am (mercifully) going back exactly one week from tomorrow to catch the Detroit Auto Show. I had never been into cars until long after my boyfriend and I had started dating and he bought his '86 Saab and started fixing it up as a project. The more he would tell me, the less I would scoff and the more I would find the mechanics of cars fascinating. That led to me being more discriminating about designs and etc., so needless to say, I'm pretty excited. I'm going with my boyfriend, my roommate, and an unknown friend of hers.

The next day, back to school for the aforementioned workshop.

I'm really glad break is almost over, but this semester really got to me, so I certainly haven't objected to the time off. The theme of this past semester was "uncertainty." Uncertain about my finances, my student loan status, roommates (ResLife certainly didn't lube up before... well, nevermind) and academics. There were the harrowing moments I thought I was going to have to transfer, thought I was suffering from depression because of my ability to sleep 12 hours at a time without even trying, the indignity of having to beg my mother for money because I could not survive with the $30 or so I had in my checking with three weeks to go until payday. Not good times.

But being at home has been a nice breather from all of that.

I did do something smart and started seeing... well, I guess you would call them a therapist, but Albion prefers the term "counselor". Either way, it's free, so I figured I might as well take advantage. She helped me deal with a lot of issues relating to self-assertion I have. A lot of people know me would say I'm a bitch, but the fact is I only assert myself and express my real feelings to those I know pretty well (and the Internet, of course. Ha!) I think it's helped quite a bit. At least as is the case with this upcoming semesters, I will know the common pitfalls in advance so I can hopefully avoid fucking up royally.