That was my impression of all the spring break party-ers you see on MTV. Anyways, YES! It is spring break! How have I longed for spring break to come. Well, technically Spring Break doesn't start for us till this weekend, but since I don't have any more classes this week I am declaring this the start of my spring break.

So what am I doing for spring break? I'm going to.....my internship!!! And then do my homework!!! WOOOO!!!! Yes, that's right, in grad school you still need to go to your internship (mine did give me the option to take the days off and make it up at the end of the school year, but I decided getting it done now was better), you still have papers and readings due and maybe even tests if you're unlucky the day you get back from "break." Thus, I will be doing as much work this coming week and a half as I normally do. At least I will not have to drive to school and back on Monday and Wednesday, which does give me four hours of my life back. Another thing to look forward to is that the week after MY spring break, the school I intern at will have spring break. So I will get two more days off there.

Some more good things that have greatly helped to de-stress me are 1.) my Child Welfare Policy professor did push back the due date for our "policy analysis" papers--which is very good since it was supposed to be due the Monday we get back, and I have done nothing for it so far. 2.) that same teacher canceled an exam. 3.) The "mid-term" paper for my adoption research class that's due on the Monday we get back is much simpler than I thought. I thought we had to have half of our research papers done, but we really just need to do these short summary things of the journal articles we read. 4.) Unlike some poor classmates of mine, I do not have any tests (that I know of. Maybe I better make sure...) right when I get back.

So my load is lighter than I previously thought, but I still have many chapters to read, much research that I have neglected, and I really want to get a lot done on my papers and future assignments so I don't get so stressed and bogged down again later on. Of course, saying that I will do all these things is different from actually doing all these things. For some reason, I never get all the work done I say I'm going to do. Beats me why.

Maybe I'll make some cookies. I wonder what's on TV...