holidays were good -- relaxing, nothing crazy. new years' plans were a bust, as usual, but I drank lots of champagne anyway so it turned out OK.

no new year's resolutions this year, except maybe an un-resolution (?) to start eating meat again, because being forced to eat cheese isn't agreeing with my insides so well. haven't fully decided yet. although here are some facts from the past week:
1. I forgot how to spell my mother's name yesterday. Seriously.
2. I have been informed that I am one credit short of my MS degree, so I either need to drop the class that I am taking now and take a class that is worth one more credit, which would be annoying because I actually want to take the class I am now taking and can't really find another that would be useful/ not tons of work. Or I can just take two classes this term, which is bad because I need to focus on my research, which is not going well, in case you were wondering. So the person who decides if everything is OK as is, i.e. I can just keep my schedule and get my degree anyway, since I've been doing research the whole time and not sitting on my ass, is my old advisor. The person who is crazy and whose lab I left because I couldn't bear to work for him and who probably was pretty damn annoyed with me leaving. Karma is a bitch.