You can tell, probably, that my first quarter of grad school ended recently...May was a pretty dry month here, but rest assured that lots of writing was happening elsewhere. Almost 20 pages of high-quality academic prose flew from my computer in the 2 weeks before Mother's Day.

Results? Straight A's, for the first time ever. I've always been a decent A/B student, but this was a nice surprise and good validation that I'm in the right place. Lesson learned, though: grad school is not the place to be putting off papers until the end of the quarter. Turns out that at 40, sleeping is so much more important than it used to be.

The summer quarter is underway, and I'm already looking forward to seeing the rest of my cohort in August—it's really weird to start the quarter without seeing your classmates or meeting the instructors, but that just makes for a more joyous reunion/introduction later, I figure.