Winter Break Fun

I must take a moment to thank Durf for the new mix of music he gave me the other day. It has gotten me through grading my finals with my sanity and happiness intact. It’s very chill ‘Sarah music’ and even though it was originally intended for a student, I’m very pleased it ended up with me instead. Sometimes life is nothing but a happy, wonderful, beautiful accident. And now I’m completely done with the semester!

Life has not all been happiness and light though. Almost everyone in our little group is feeling a little under the weather. What I thought of as the chest cold that wouldn’t go away apparently was something a little worse. I have been diagnosed as having walking phenomena. But I’m taking the medicine and spending lots of time sleeping and watching movies (actually, not so hard for me). All the laying around and not doing much lead me to feeling much better than I have in several weeks and I was even able to go out a little last night.

Sadly, though, I did cancel my Nanjing/Shanghai trip which I really didn’t have the money for anyway. Travel plans are still on for Yunnan in February and hopefully I can still get to Shanghai somehow after my conference next week. If not though, I think things will be fine in Nanchong. Dora is only going home for four days and Tang Juan says I can come to her house for Spring Festival if I want. Actually, with travel being such a pain in the ass this time of year, I really wouldn’t mind just staying home if it wasn’t for the fact that I NEED to go someplace not-Chengdu, just to save my own sanity.