are fixed points in time. (Should I start calling them “visits”? Weird.)

What I mean by that is, every time I wake up and find myself at home, I can consistently, reliably quantify the most recent chunk of time I spent at school in Boston. It is always a fixed amount because a stable pattern has emerged: go home Christmas, go home spring break, go home summer.

That realization, of course, is always accompanied with a self-evaluation - what did I do? Where am I going next? I don’t have too much to do here, just friends to see and odds and ends to take care of, so I’m left with a lot of time just to reflect and to plan, something I don’t have when school and the like are in full swing.

In other news, having a car is amazing, as is having cats.