Days off make me happy.

In order to not burn out on activist things before the full semester even starts, I decided to take my long weekend between J-Term and Spring Semester off. Thus far, it's been four days of wonderful irresponsibility.

Friday, I had planned to stay in and clean my room, and then my dad called and offered to take a friend and me out for lunch. He had to get me my prescription, and it worked just as well, because I needed groceries. It was a really great time, and I love seeing my dad.

That night, I decided to try to clean my room, and then got a call from another friend. Her friends from Iowa were in town, and she was having a shindig at her apartment. So I went, made some cool new friends, and went home and went to bed.

Saturday was pretty lazy. I had hoped to meet up with the same friends for lunch/coffee, and then didn't get to. I ended up going to a ceili at Tapestry, which was fantastic. I haven't done ceili in about a year, and by the time I finished my calves were positively burning. They've been sore for the past two days, but it was worth it. A very delicious sort of sore that makes me want to stay in and be the relaxed homebody I should be on breaks.

Last night, I went swing dancing after spending a remarkably pleasant time at Ike's Superbowl party. I knitted most of the time and talked over the game. Swing dancing was good, but my calves hurt. This morning I could barely walk as a consequence. Am feeling much better now.

I convinced my friends Tim and Kira to go to Tapestry to learn to swing dance on Thursday! It should be a really great time, and seven bucks for a whole night of dancing plus at least two hours of lessons? Really good. Really damn good, in fact.

Dancing is sometimes my life.

Today I read, shot out some emails for Vag. Monos, but was generally very lazy. I did manage to do a weeks' worth of dishes, however. That was fantastic.

I've also been writing again, which feels really good. I took a break to gather my thoughts, and now they're gathered and going very cool places. I'm on chapter 14 of my novel, which is an absolutely fantastic feeling. And I've still got most of tonight to continue writing, I just thought I'd take a quick break to update everyone on my weekend pursuits.

I like breaks. I should take them more often.