an adult again

Hello -
yesterday evening was great fun. We had dinner with our downstairs housemates (a super friendly couple from Chile). The guys cooked the main meal; while she and I cooked the dessert. I realized half way through the dinner (maybe the wine helped) that for the first time in a while I felt like a person again, and an adult at that - the grind and the stress pressures to be a student and just a student - a paper-producing machine. and any time I deal with the administration, well maybe it's because of the large number of undergrads but really, they treat us like kids.
Yesterday I was an adult again; and it was damn good.

I've been meaning to put tons of thoughts up here, but it's the end of the term (three more days of class) and things are backlogged: everything's due right around now. We passed our presentation for our consulting project brilliantly, so that's a huge chunk off our chests, but still plenty more to come, and the variety of topics doesn't make it easy: no overlapping between subjects this term. In any case, I'll try to catch up on here over the next couple of weeks.