exams

I have qualifying exams in 6 days. I have been holed up for weeks now preparing and stressing. This is why, my dear friends, I am acting like an even bigger freak about school than usual. I am about 3/4 of the way ready and am in serious need of distraction.

Just for fun we decided to sell our house during all of this. Ray lives in Rochester, NY and has actually been out of the country for work during much of the saga of selling the house. We accepted an offer, the people's brother-in-law was the inspector and said our 8 yr old house is falling down around our ears (but we never noticed this) so they decided not to buy our house after all. We got some $ from them backing out of the deal, which was enough to pay for repairs and now the house is back on the market except we think perhaps we should just keep the house as an investment property since we discovered can't afford to buy a house in Rochester due the the ridiculously high property taxes. Way more information than any of you wanted.

What next? Well, once I'm done with exams, I am going to spend my spring break in Ireland with Ray. He'll work and I'll be a tourist and write some fellowship proposals whilst drinking at the pub. The thought of this is what is getting me through this dark time. After summer school, during which time I'll finish writing my proposal, I'll head out to Rochester with Skippy Lynch to spend a few weeks with Ray before coming back here to collect some data for my dissertation.

Someday Ray, Skippy and I will all live together again. But for now, I think we are all glad that we don't because I'm not very nice right now and I don't have time to do anything except study, stress, keep my house in museum like condition and write blogs.