early

i surprised my parents today by coming home two days early. it was fabulous. my mom literally ran out to my car. and then she ran inside and told me dad that he "had to come outside quick to see this." he got two steps out the door and was like, "what vicki, what?" and then he saw me standing a foot in front of him. hehe. it was cute. he was like, "you surprised the hell out of me!" super cute.

so i survived my first semester of grad school. i think it ended well. or at least, it ended much better than it started. i made some awesome friends and i hope that next semester I can get to know people better. overall, i think everyone has contributed in some small way to making it a lot easier. i especially don't think i would have made it without Lost nights with mj and starbucks/stats with courtney.

i have to go to sleep soon because after driving 4.5 hours from MA i'm worn out. i'm not sure if it's the drive or where i'm driving (MA, CT, NY, NJ...). my jaw began to set around hartford and the vein popped out around the tappen zee. by the time i got to the turnpike, i wanted to give everyone the "driving finger." being as its the holiday season and all, i didn't. you never know when "santa" is watching, after all. that and in a fight with a jersey person, my $$ would go on the jersey person.

anyway, i'll update this later. not that i have anything exciting to say. but it makes me feel happy to update and hope that someone somewhere is actually caring what's going on in this pathetic life :-).