Today I fell in love with a new album. It is Katie Costello's Lamplight and although I am a little behind on the times, her EP Cityscape. There are very few albums I can listen to from beginning to end without skipping any tracks partway through even on the first listen but hers has been the perfect soundtrack to my day from start to finish. I haven't flipped past a song yet which is mostly due to the amazing music and partly due to the desire to protect my hands from the freezing temperatures outside. I have heard Katie perform in person at a benefit my sister put on when Katie was a Junior in high school at my alma mater. It's hard to find artists these day who sound just as good in person as they do in their recorded music but she is one of those hard to find artists. From Facebook, it's obvious that her growing fame has not caused her to forget who she is as an artist and a person and she has kept her friends close even though she splits her time between two very distant cities. While I cannot claim to be a friend by any means, it's still pretty cool that we went to the same high school and I did have the pleasure of passing her in the halls during the two years we overlapped.
On to my life. I am finished with classes until after Spring Break which would normally be a liberating feeling but I have soooo much laundry to do (I have been pushing it off for a while...) that I won't have a chance to enjoy the freedom until all that and the packing gets done. Along with what seems to be half the school, my best friend and I are headed off on a cruise to get some sun. The dilemma with second semester is that we only get spring break meaning that we have to wait through seven weeks of class to get a break which is not a natural break in the semester to then come back and go back to full steam ahead for the next seven weeks before finals. I am convinced that this is a good portion of the reason second semester drags far more than first semester. The other reason is of course the weather but I will get to that in a minute. First semester, we get pacing break at the beginning of October and Thanksgiving at the end of November which splits the semester into three roughly equal parts which works with the testing system most teachers utilize. I got lucky and had no tests this week and none the week we get back so I sort of get away with not doing anything over the break. I will admit to having some classwork to finish but the likelihood of it getting done while I am on the boat is minimal.
Spring break seems to split students into two groups, the ones who head south with friends for what they hope to be a crazy week and the other who head home or to a friends with the intent of re-cooperating and refreshing for the rest of the semester, some of the latter group tries to get ahead or catch up on more independent work. I am happy to say that I think I fall in between the groups, I am going to get some sun but also get some rest.
Okay back to the weather. It has been a very tricky thing of late. Today, it was freezing, last week it was nice and sunny. I would like it to sort itself out. Almost all of the snow and ice has melted from the warmth of last week but it's time for winter to be over and for spring to come. It would be nice not to have to pile on a million layers to walk to class. I have shorts that I would really like to wear when I get back from spring break.
I think I have made up for the lag in posts with this monster post. Be back after spring break!
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