SPRING BREAK!

A photo from the St. Paul Farmers Market last year. Here's hoping for warmth soon!

After a few days of much-needed recovery time, it has finally hit me that I am on Spring break. I have a ton of schoolwork to do and am working 20 hours this week, but I am deadline-free for 8 days. Oh the joy.

Break has been great so far. I spent yesterday with my family (although SB couldn't join us because now he's sick! Huge bummer.), this morning drinking mimosas and eating vegan brunch (including cupcakes!), and will spend the evening watching a movie with SB and Cricket. All of this could be done guilt-free, as I don't really need to be doing homework quite yet.

I also started reading Violent Partners by Linda Mills (for an upcoming conference). I like her tone thus far and think that it will be a really compelling read as well as a fascinating, radical, restorative-justice and healing-type approach to the issue of domestic violence. I have to facilitate discussion of the book at a conference that Linda Mills herself will be attending. A cool opportunity, but intimidating since I have no experience with this issue and I'll be facilitating professionals in this field.

While this week will have to include extensive research for papers and projects, reading for classes, there will also hopefully be a fun St. Patrick's Day celebration (nothing more or less than attempting to make Irish soda bread and drinking a beer with friends and family) as well as several other fun activities, the memories of which will hopefully keep me going through these final months of school and the beginning of my job search. YIKES. I'll save those worries for another week. If I do anything especially cool, I will post a photo.