Semester 1, Done

Quite anticlimactically, I'm done with finals. I just emailed in my last exam about half an hour ago. I'm not sure what my teacher really wanted, I don't know if I gave it to him, but whatever it is, it's done, and I understand a few things in the sugyot that I wrote about better than I did before I started. Besides that, I wrote 8 full, single-spaced pages today. It doesn't sound like so much, but recognizing that I more often write double-spaced papers, and that this would have been 16 pages long, and that this morning when I started, I had a bit under half a page written, that is a relatively significant amount of writing for one day.

The semester is done, but it hasn't really sunken in yet. Perhaps it will tomorrow. I'm sure it will on Sunday when my apartment will suddenly be empty of occupants other than myself. So now (or well, tomorrow or Sunday), I start planning vacation, now that it has started.