(Last) Health Update: I decided not to go to the doctor because I sort of felt better. I now feel 70% more like myself, so I’m semi-officially on the mend.

My new official focus is getting grad school applications done as quickly as humanly possibly, since I probably should have been doing them instead of laying around being sick for like, three and a half weeks, but hey, no one can bat 1000.

My new unofficial focus is yay! almost Christmas! It’s sweater weather.
Plans are being laid, gifts are being considered. Alex is possibly the hardest person to buy for in the history of the world; I’ve already given him sweater vests and cufflinks, what’s left? Dan and Tim, whose birthdays I totally missed after they gave me things, and then I failed to come through on promised make-up baked goods, what of them?
Maybe this year, since I don’t have exams and essays due up until the week before the big day, I will have gifts bought in advance.
I want to go out and make egg nog, like, yesterday, but really, you only get a couple weeks a year where it’s not totally ridiculous to drink something made of whole milk, eggs, vanilla, sugar and rum, with a generous sprinkle of nutmeg on top. Sadly, it’s not those weeks yet.
I want to start baking cookies and squares and melting chocolate and the like, but again, it’s way too early and I know I could theoretically mix the dough and freeze it, but where’s the fun in that? (Plus my freezer is barely big enough for all my ice cube trays).