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I finished my exams on Thursday night. So Friday was spent in the usual mix of a flurry of Shabbat preparations and lazing about, and then Shabbos was Shabbos. And it was fairly exciting in its own right: I had dinner with one roommate and her family- her brother was in the country for some sort of significant program, and then went to a "one hour" shiur that, not surprisingly, turned out to be more like 2 1/2 hours, but very worthwhile- I love the way that this teacher takes the academic Talmud stuff and takes it to a point with spiritual meaning, rather than doing only one or the other, and the way he remembers people. I hosted lunch, and did a mix of comfortable, easy food (casserole, glazed carrots, French bread, chocolate oatmeal bars with white chocolate chips) and an approximation of nachos (chips, sour cream, home-made salsa since I didn't find any in the store, and the other roommate made a really tasty spinach-artichoke dip. Yes, I know one of these things is not like the others.) Saturday night, both roommates headed off for their travels.
So that left today to be my first proper day of break. I took the day to relax in the apartment on my own, and to start thinking about what I'm doing with my break. So I spent a bunch of time reading, and did some hoop dancing, which works much better for me when I can a. not be watched (at this stage at least) and b. can move the furniture out of the way easily, and spent nearly 2 hours talking to my parents, followed by some basic preparations for what I need to work on for my sister's wedding this summer (I'm intending to use this break to do a bunch of that stuff, so that I don't have to deal with as much of it during the semester). I really enjoyed having the extra time to talk and catch up with life at home, without needing to fit dinner, talking to my folks, talking to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jakal88, and checking email and the like neatly in the 3 hours I had between getting home and going to bed, this last semester, on Sundays. So it has been a quiet day, but with a certain relaxed joy to it. Many more days like this in a row, and it will get far too lonely, but one day of just me and my schedule was great. In the next few days, I start doing some exciting and interesting things outside the apartment as well.
So that left today to be my first proper day of break. I took the day to relax in the apartment on my own, and to start thinking about what I'm doing with my break. So I spent a bunch of time reading, and did some hoop dancing, which works much better for me when I can a. not be watched (at this stage at least) and b. can move the furniture out of the way easily, and spent nearly 2 hours talking to my parents, followed by some basic preparations for what I need to work on for my sister's wedding this summer (I'm intending to use this break to do a bunch of that stuff, so that I don't have to deal with as much of it during the semester). I really enjoyed having the extra time to talk and catch up with life at home, without needing to fit dinner, talking to my folks, talking to
jakal88, and checking email and the like neatly in the 3 hours I had between getting home and going to bed, this last semester, on Sundays. So it has been a quiet day, but with a certain relaxed joy to it. Many more days like this in a row, and it will get far too lonely, but one day of just me and my schedule was great. In the next few days, I start doing some exciting and interesting things outside the apartment as well.