A Break from Break

I'm on my week-long Spring Break, and of course, it started off with me getting sick. Technically, my sore throat/flu thing started last Thursday, but my illness peaked a couple of days ago with a fever that took me completely out of commission for that day. Still, as illnesses go, this one hasn't been so bad and really just gave me another excuse to lounge around the house for this first half of break (like I needed an excuse). And it hasn't prevented me from spending a couple of nights with friends. Tonight will be the biggest meet-up of the break, consisting of a collision between my Lehigh and my high school friends. I hope they like each other, and I have every reason to expect that they will. If not, I guess they'll just have to eliminate each other in Highlander fashion.

Yeah, they're not immortals. So what?

Today was the first day I was able to coerce myself to do something productive. I went through all the things I brought home for break and separated out those things I want to leave at home, reducing what I'll be taking back to Lehigh to about half of what I brought. I then read about 40-50 pages of a book I checked out from the library here on a hacker and his life growing up in Brooklyn (Hacker Cracker); it's not the best written book, but I'm hoping it'll provide me with some insights into how hackers operate that I can incorporate into my thesis. I followed that up with 20 pages of overdue Nietzsche reading that'll help put me back on track in my religion class. So that leaves me with:
- About 10 more pages to Nietzsche to read
- The rest of Hacker Cracker to finish (~150 pages)
- Several issues of The Economist to browse through so as to not let that subscription go to waste
- About 100 pages of a networking book to skim in preparation for an exam I have the week I get back
- Hundreds of pages of thesis research to explore for useful quotes
- 10+ pages to write for my thesis

Wow, when I enumerate it like that, it really is a lot, isn't it? But I'm feeling unusually motivated for once, so I expect to make a significant dent in all of that. Nonetheless, any well-wishes or prayer or pagan rituals would be appreciated; I'll need all of those to make any headway.

Oh, and if you didn't get that Highlander reference, I'll need to revoke your "nerd" credentials, if you ever had them. Sorry, but I don't make the rules; I just arbitrarily enforce them.