By this time tomorrow I will have been finished with Fall Term ’04 for nearly 9 hours. This thrills me to no end, as I will have a few days of work (followed by two more weeks of a different type of work if everything carries on as it ought to) and then a glorious week of vacation and traveling. I am going home to spend Christmas with my family, and the only part of that which saddens me is that I am not able to take TheBoy with me on this particular visit. Monetary circumstances just wouldn’t allow for it. However, I will return to a second Christmas with his family on New Year’s Eve and much joy will be had by all. I just have to finish the essay that I’m working on, read about 75 pages and review the past five weeks worth of notes. Everything is under control and I’m really not all that concerned. I am much better prepared than I was for the final, I just have to hope that the essay I turned in Friday was also acceptable. Or at least acceptable enough.