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It was nice of the weather to be warm yesterday, but it was awfully wet. I know, because I stood in it for half an hour at Harvard Ave waiting for the T. I did have an umbrella, but I also had a bag of cat food, which I wasn't interested in walking all over hell's half acre with, and wasn't quite willing to walk into a bar with (although I was sorely tempted to give up and go have a drink somewhere). So I stood in the rain for half an hour. At least it got me over being annoyed at myself for the latest tutorial session disaster, which I had known about but which got shoved into the back of my brain behind competencies and summatives and Mozart. So I have to reschedule two tutorials, but fortunately only for one of the four groups. Problem being that this is a split course; it happens for two weeks and then there's a three-week break so the students can study for and take the National Board Exam Part 1, and then the course picks up again for another three weeks. So if I can't reschedule the tutorials for next week, they'll have to wait until May. But I'm human, therefore I'm not perfect, therefore I can stop kicking myself about this, right?

Not taking any vacation this spring has been rough on my brain. I did it on purpose this year, though, because taking vacation in March has never been really convenient for this job; waiting until after graduation would be better. But I got used to having a break in March, and not having it is making me unhappy and making me eat too much (operating on the premise that I eat too much when I'm unhappy, I'm trying to figure out why I'm unhappy. The answer keeps being some variation on "I need a break."). Apparently I need more of a break than a single four-day weekend last month. At this time two months from now, I will be in Iceland. For today, I'm glad it's Friday. And I'm very glad I splurged on an hour and a half of massage appointment tonight, because bits of me need it.