Did it feel like a break? Perhaps.

Bwog traveled around everywhere:

• Spent like 7 hours in the car on Thanksgiving
• Went to Miami for the first time to visit my sister!
• Went to the Thanksgiving Day parade
• Went to a lights festival!!!
• Went to some Bridgemas (aka Cambridge Christmas) things, including a Christmas concert and a Secret Santa potluck
• Received a very cute watercolor painting of a robin in the aforementioned Secret Santa
• Went to the English department Christmas party and learned that English majors and professors in England drink a LOT of alcohol

Bwog was both entertained and disappointed:

• Saw an IGUANA
• Watched “Griswold Family Christmas,” and it was cinematic gold
• Watched the new Hunger Games, and it was so good
• Watched lots of Xmas movies
• Saw the Five Nights at Freddy’s movie in theaters… it was bad….
• Ended up at the concert of a really bad Backstreet Boy cover band
• Read all of Bleak House

Bwog didn’t forget about coursework:

• Did not work on my thesis
• Did not work on any of the other assignments I should have worked on
• Did not begin my thesis
• Read a book for my thesis
• Spent hours writing the first draft of an 8-page paper
• Wrote two essays

Bwog spent some “quality” time with friends and families:

• Met some brand new family members
• Continued an annual tradition of going to the Waverly Diner with high school friends
• Dealt with unruly cousins
• Met the new partners of two of my immediate family members
• Saw some high school friends
• Saw some hometown friends!!
• Read over my little sister’s college essays (god I do not miss that one bit)
• Played so much with my 1-year-old brother
• Celebrated my dog’s 10th bday!!
• Celebrated my dog’s fourth birthday with a cake!!
• Was reminded how insane my family is

Bwog ate, played, and ran:

• Had so many Brussels sprouts (iykyk lol)
• Had three different thanksgiving meals (child of a divorce moment)
• Ate a thousand and one oatmeal cookies
• Played lots of Mario Kart and FIFA 23
• Ran a 5k on Thanksgiving

Bwog meditated:

• Complained
• Panicked
• Doubted going back to school the whole break
• Languished!
• Was stressed
• Was cold, but felt festive

Bwog went shopping:

• Finally purchased a Columbia sweatshirt (thank you Black Friday sales)
• Went thrifting for new sweaters and SCORED, it was such a good haul
• Did some online shopping
• Bought a Christmas tree

Fall Flowers via Pixabay