Breathe.

So here I am. I've been pretty much consumed with a) homework and b) watching bad 80's TV shows with my next-door neighbors. But here's some stuff that's been going on:

Next Monday, I'm going to a Bob Dylan concert with my dad and stepmom, which is amazingly cool. I saw him in concert a couple of years ago when he was touring with Paul Simon, but you can never see too much Bobby D. Am I wrong?

In a few weeks, I will be going to New York with my mother. I will be able to meet up with my two best friends, too, so I will be able to see the three people I've been missing the most. Not bad for one trip. We will visit my great-great aunt Sophie (for whom I am named), and make our usual pilgrimages (Pearl Paint, Chinatown, all the thrift stores in Chelsea. And maybe some museums and stuff, too). And when I get back, I will be moving out of my apartment to the aforementioned apartment next door. They asked me a while ago whether I wanted to move in with them, and since my room still smells a little funny from the flooding incident, and where I am now is on the main path to the dorms, and it can get pretty loud on weekends (Things Sophie Learned at College, #341: Drunk people like to yell a lot. No, seriously, a LOT.), and also because the guys next door are my friends and I like spending time with them, I said yes. This will be good.

I've been informed that my amazing Uncle Mike has a blog. I've linked to it in the sidebar, but here it is again. He breezed into town last Friday, and we had some family dinners and breakfasts before he had to go back to Chicago on Sunday. I have pictures that I took from Sunday breakfast here (I think that link should work... I'm not used to that site yet.)

Finals are upon me, and I think I'm going to do ok. This was a low-key quarter, which was a good thing after the stress-fest of fall. I'm not yet sure what I'll be taking next quarter, but I went to the Academic Fair today and got some good ideas.

I've been listening a lot to Iron & Wine. Everyone who reads this should go buy their album "Our Endless Numbered Days". It is beyond excellent.