Why Fall Break is Going to be Awful

It's going to be nice to have a break from classes, and a break from Grainger, and a break from Haydn's Creation.  I'll probably get more sleep.  I'll get to see my choir peeps, and I haven't gotten to talk to Boss in almost three months, so that'll be awesome.

But I'm going to be so bored.

This is not to suggest that I won't have plenty to do.  I have homework coming out of my ears at this point, and grad school applications are slowly killing me.  Then there's that honors thesis thing that I haven't really started yet--and I promised my adviser a draft by the end of the semester, which is less than a month away.  There's also plenty of music stuff to do.  My To-Do list is really, really, really long, and that's only the stuff I have to do as opposed to want to do.

But I'm going to be so bored.

Everything is classified in my head by whether it is Interesting or Not Interesting.  Thanksgiving is Not Interesting.  Random relatives--Not Interesting.  Being away from the libraries and the lab and the Internet is not only a pain in the ass for homework-doing, it is also firmly in the category of Not Interesting.  Thing which are fascinating to the people I'm going to be with are practically guaranteed to be Not Interesting.

I guess my only consolation at this point is that my research and paper-type work will still be Interesting enough to keep me from lighting things on fire, and so will getting a chat with Boss, and so will some of the music, probably.  But I suspect that there's still going to be a lot of in-between time, which is certainly going to make me want to light things on fire.

Hopefully nothing will be in ashes by the end of break.  I kind of doubt it, though.