Home for the Holidays

It has been quite some time betwixt updates. I will not lie and say it is because of very hectic holiday-ness. I just find myself in the depths of extreme laziness this time of year - a break from school, entirely too much eating, outings, traveling, rediscovering television - all things that have made me borderline catatonic for the past month or so. I am almost positive I have forgotten how to read for anything beyond the length of a tweet (and I don't even have a Twitter account) and I have watched more programs on cupcake competitions than I care to admit. All intentions of doing "extra work" and "supplementary reading" went out the window the second I was gingerly plopped in front of the family room TV, post wisdom tooth removal. TV is amazing. I forgot. I forgot how magnificent something so mindless can be.  I will certainly not be getting cable at any point during graduate school or nothing will ever get done, except, perhaps, an untimely career change into wedding cake decorator.

Speaking of cake...

I know people don't shut up about the dreaded holiday food crisis and the "battle of the bulge" (an expression that deeply bothers me - perhaps because I always wish it was really the "battle of the bugle" and am left disappointed each time) but seriously, what the fuck? Despite having four teeth violently extracted from my face, making the consumption of solid food next to impossible for some time, I feel like a walking dirigible just from existing around so much food. Like the very air itself became caloric. How does this happen? WHY does this happen? No wonder everybody joins a gym for 14 minutes in January. Truly disheartening.

Although I feel like a mammoth without the fur, home was good. It was nice to be here and see everybody and get snowed in and cuddle with the dog. I am certainly ready to return to my life though. I miss Virginia.

Classes will start next week and I am looking forward to ripping myself out of this holiday-induced laziness, learning how to read full paragraphs again, getting back to getting in shape, and all that learning that happens. I anticipate a very happy 2011.