Hello, dear readers, and welcome to Thursday! I’ve been a bit discombobulated this week – between the holiday on Monday, a sick day on Tuesday, our weather dramatically dropping about 30 degrees in 24 hours…it’s been a weird week.

It’s also a liminal space sort of week. It’s my final week of break before the fall semester starts. I’m going to need to start in on homework this weekend. I’ve been setting up my study schedule, trying to build sufficient homework blocks into my calendar so I can get done what I need to get done. We’ve been working on clearing out some space in my office so I can have a more relaxing environment to study in, which has turned into a bigger and bigger project the longer we work on it.

Change is not something I tend to particularly enjoy. I am a creature of habit and routine, and even though I am excited for both of my classes, there is definitely a part of my brain that wants to resist the shift back into school mode, out of the more relaxed routine of the past month and into a more rigid schedule. It’ll be good, though – most of me knows that. I’m a little nervous about the volume of reading/homework that I’ll have to do over the course of the next 3-ish months, but theoretically it should be doable.

Anyway, I think I’m going to leave it there for this week. Please enjoy these Nova photos: