Week 10...

It's that time of year again. Week 10. The only thing worse than this week is the weather that comes with it. Civilians from Washington would call me crazy because they love the cold weather, but being from California, anything less than 70 degrees is unacceptable. And quite honestly, anything less than 80 for me is pushing it. The cold weather makes me want to drink hot chocolate all day, be at home in comfy clothes, eat soup, watch movies and read for fun. And now that my house has decided to turn the heater on, there is not much motivation for me to be outside of this lovely home.

As a senior, my motivation for classes was already low this quarter (senioritis) and that was with the weather being sunny almost until December 1st. Now you can imagine what the struggle will be for me this week if the sun decides to hide until Spring. While I am lucky enough not to have finals this quarter, there is still a lot I have to get done this week. I have two "midterms" at the end of the week. I have a problem set due for my Political Economics class. I have to go to work. I have meetings. And I have to start looking ahead to the future. Oh how I have avoided thinking about the future. Maybe week 10 is a good excuse to postpone thinking about it a little bit longer. Can I just take a nap? Sleep sounds pretty nice. It's necessary for week 10. It certainly was three years ago. 

Thanks to my great friend Joe Sarmiento, who has actively been bringing back my old Facebook statuses, some of which people would call gems, I was able to reflect back on my first experience of week 10 as a college student. I definitely was not excited to come back after the nice week at home for Thanksgiving. It is such a tease to us all. The school should really think about starting the school year earlier so that winter break can be longer and more people can be home for Thanksgiving and Christmas. 

I will say though that in comparison to week tens in the past, coming back from break this year was not as stressful. When friends asked how my break was, I told them it was really good, but I was happy to be back too. Such an unexpected answer considering it's dead week. I was feeling very optimistic. Pumped. Peaceful. Joyful. But oh how the weather can change that quickly. Now that the weather has
decided it's going to be 45 degrees, I have to dig deeper and say, "Week 10, bring it."

Good luck to everyone who is chilling at "rock-bottom" this week (shout out to my twerking platypi, I mean periwinkle platypi). We are almost there!!!