I go back to Chicago soon, thank goodness. This break hasn't turned out to be too bad. I got a fair amount accomplished and recconnected with a lot of important people.

It's definitely time to go back though. It was time to go weeks ago. I'm looking forward to doing color in Photo II and having a math class to struggle over. As I told someone the other day, it will be a problem but at least it will be a familiar problem, unlike most of the things I dealt with last semester.

It will be interesting to start dating papers "2006" and have it sink in that it's a whole new year. 2005 was such a mess. I blame it on the fact that it was an odd number. I'm really looking forward to a nice, smooth 2006.