Doldrums

Well, it is official - I've hit the doldrums, and it looks like I'll be there until mid March, when the Berlin conference takes place. It also doesn't help that the end of the month has its challenges...specifically that I have to wait until the last day of the month to get paid for the upcoming month.

Tomorrow marks the end of a four-day weekend...one which I wasn't expecting to be quite honest. Last week I was informed that this Tuesday would be a conference day for the teachers, and that I'd have the day off. Since I already don't go in on Mondays, that means a four day weekend. Which, since I hadn't been given earlier notice about my time off, would be spent sitting in my apartment doing two things - 1. Starting, and nearly finishing, the TV series "How I Met your Mother", and 2. Watching all four of the movies in the X-men series. Never in my life have I cursed a four day weekend, but when you're already struggling to keep yourself busy in the first palce, having extra time off isn't exactly a blessing.

Luckily I have a couple things to look forward to in the near future. Next weekend should be spent with a friend of mine who is a student teacher, because she's finished an important step in her student teaching work (Unterrichtsbesuch, or U.B.). She's requested to have a night out on the town, in Duelmen...hah, and I was definitely excited about the chance to do anything social in my town. Then the weekend after that, the American TAs are getting together to have an "American party," complete with beer pong, flip cup, and various card games. The superbowl is the following day, so we're working on how to watch that as well.

Step by step I'm getting closer - 5 months to go! (To be quite honest though, I'm starting to realize that I'll end up missing stuff when I leave here as well - specifically people I've met) Hoping that I'll hear something back from Georgetown or Madison soon regarding graduate study, and will keep you updated on that. Hope you are all surviving January and the post-holidays slow-down. Wishing you the best and missing you all!