Good!

- M and I have made some really great and important decisions about our relationship. Nothing is official, and there is no pressure, but I'm feeling great about where things stand.
- I'll be living with M this summer - within the next three weeks, we'll be together again after nine months of maintaining a long-distance relationship.
- My subletter is good to move in on the 28th, and is taking my apartment furnished, so my move will be much less stressful than those of the past.
- It's a bit late to update on, but at work my coworker and I had been planning a huge living tribute in honor of a local Holocaust survivor who has had a great influence on our Center. The tribute went off without a hitch, and was wonderful.
- I'm down to my last month!
- I'm creating a unit plan for one of my classes, and am currently creating a thematic plan that focuses on "Identity in Literature and Writing." The texts will include The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, The Catcher in the Rye, and Shakespeare's "12th Night." The writing will also include memoir.
- I've been watching the Shiba Inu puppy cam for the last four weeks. In hard times, adorable puppies have kept me going.
- I created a video for my Instructional Technology class. It's not very good, and absurdly nerdy, but I'm also kind of proud of it.
- One of the members of my cohort created a really fun fall cohort t-shirt. They'll be coming in around finals week. We'll all be going our separate ways starting after this quarter, so it's fun to have a bit of a souvenir.
- I don't know if I updated about this already, but I've been back on my anti-depressants since March, and I'm so glad I did that for myself. I should have taken responsibility of it long before then, but the panic attacks have stopped, and the anxiety's been greatly reduced. It's fantastic being able to fall asleep again.

Meh

- M would really like to find a house to rent, but we're under time and financial constraints. My hope is we'll simply move into a bigger apartment, but the house hunt itself has been stressful.
- I'm living in limbo: my weekends starting this month are entirely in Seattle, my weekdays are spent balancing school, work, sleep, and whatever else happens at my apartment. My place is a mess because I've been sorting through stuff in preparation of the mood, and because I leave my place every few days, I haven't properly gone grocery shopping in ages.
- Still struggling with diet and exercise. I joined a zumba class, which is fantastic, but haven't gone at all this week because I'm trying to just spend as much time home as I can. Overall, I think I've lost about 15 pounds since last summer, but I'd still like to get a bit more in shape. Diet, though, is the main thing I need to work on, especially given the whole "I haven't properly gone grocery shopping in ages" thing.
- I'm having a hard time motivating myself to go to my classes. Of the four that I'm taking, one is mostly worthwhile, one is somewhat worthwhile, and the other two are only marginally so.
- One of the girls in my English methods class is one of the most irritating individuals I have ever met. Ever. She has a whale tattooed on her thigh, and got choked up this morning when someone criticized Disney. She also made some semi-racist remarks about being frustrated by the need to teach multicultural literature when the Anglo classics are the "building blocks of our culture, of who we are as Americans." (Then she said nothing published after 1950 was worth reading, and then she complained about not having a list that will help her find good books. Worst English major ever?)
- Allergies.

The hard stuff
- Tomorrow marks the two year anniversary of M's father's death. It's hard to think about and process.