Simply Serendipitous

I’m sitting here, early into Sunday afternoon, almost ready to get serious, but not quite.

You see, this weekend I decided to give myself my own fall break.  I’ve already mentioned that I don’t have classes on Friday, but this doesn’t automatically mean a three-day weekend.  Most Fridays I try to get up at the same time I do Monday-Thursday, have a bit of a leisurely breakfast, and then get to work.  But not this Friday.  I woke up late (does 10:00 count?) and somehow managed to do nothing productive with my day, at which point I decided I was on fall break.

My fall break coincided with fall fest and young alumni weekend, meaning there was a TON of stuff going on, with both on-campus events and off-campus parties. Of course, as any break should, mine included plenty of laziness.  I spent the majority of Saturday watching movies and re-watching Thursday’s episode of The Office (3 times, so far).  Aside from that, I saw a screening of The Hangover on the beach, and stopped by a couple of other events and parties as well.  The closing event of my fall break was a trip with friends to Pete’s Grill and The Book Thing this morning.  Pete’s Grill is an awesome place a few blocks away that’s garnered fame for being Michael Phelps’ favorite breakfast place, and this morning I understood why.  Delish.  And The Book Thing is Baltimore’s free book warehouse.  Walk in, browse, pick up anything that appeals to you, and leave.  It’s so great and a short walk from Pete’s Grill, making for a perfect morning.  I left today with six books on criminal law, American politics, interest groups, and the like.  My friends picked up entirely different things (of course) and it was kind of funny to look at what we all got and compare.

So I realized that sometimes, once in a while, on occasion, it’s okay to completely disregard real life and focus on having fun.  It’s good and perhaps even necessary for maintaining sanity.  And even Hopkins students do it!  Of course, now it’s time to buckle down, go back to being a normal person and do my biostats homework (I can’t even tell you how much I’m dreading all of that), but it was a fantastic break that hopefully prepared me to get back to reality.