I haven't written much in the past two months. I was on a good roll for a while; I don't have much of an audience, but it's nice to write to an unseen crowd anyways. Right at the beginning of May I finished my first year of classes, then immediately took off and went home for a couple of weeks to see my family and friends. I was feeling very overwhelmed and homesick, and it was nice to be back in the Northwest for a little while.
It was an okay trip overall, it was nice to see my mom, although my trip to see my friends actually turned out to be a disaster; I lost what I thought was my boyfriend (it's a slow motion train wreck, I'm still dealing with it now) and my visit with my friends was a little underwhelming. This is a hard year, I think, but I'm learning a lot even though I'm resisting it.
Getting back to work was actually a relief in some ways. Now that I'm strictly focused on the research aspect of my work I'm a lot happier, and even more so now that I'm working with my hands and getting really into the instrument work. I love making things and teasing things apart, and there is plenty of that to do right now. In the next couple of weeks I'll be joining my field campaign, and will have plenty of work to do as well as the added benefit of shaking up my life a little bit and getting me out of my routine. Lots of variety is the secret to a satisfying life, so yay?
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