Aqua Regia

I realized that I never posted pictures from Spring Break. We are...what? Seven weeks past that? Sometimes my brain is just so fail about remembering things it's just sad. Or maybe it just took such a bad beating from midterms which were really not pretty?

( So, pictures! Really not dial-up friendly. )

This last Thursday I started back to school after 1.5 blessed weeks off. Unfortunately, I am surprisingly tired for having only been back in school for two days. XD Oh well...time to start the coffee flowing again!

Spring Break was wonderful. Totally relaxing, which is what I really needed. I was able to not only catch up on my piano practicing and go back to choir (both neglected for the week prior to and the week of finals), but to catch up on some books, DVDs, and even start a fic!

Of course, I also had to go to Jury Duty for a day, which wasn't fun. It was actually pretty interesting though, which surprised me. I think I might be willing to do it if I had MUCH more time (the trial I was assigned to was going through JUNE).

The book of the break was Tamora Pierce's Trickster's Queen, which was an excellent addition to the Tortall universe (and had been lying around unfinished for about a month). I also snuck in Silvermist and the Ladybug Curse (another excellent Disney Fairies chapter book), and in the manga realm, I read xxxHolic #11 (so GOOD), NANA #8 and #9 (this series just keeps getting better and better), and the first two volumes of MeruPuri: Marchen Prince. It's a cute fantasy so far, and I'm looking forward to hopefully finishing up the last two volumes this weekend.

But yeah, most of this break was really spent on the couch with a fat stack of DVDs. The complete list includes: The Mists of Avalon, A Room With a View, Merlin, Dune, 300, He-Man Season 1, Part 1, and Batman: The Animated Series (I finally finished the third box set and also watched the fourth set - yes, I did OD on Batman a little).

I even started writing a Jewel Riders fic - I only have about 1500 words down so far, but that's not bad for me (who has the hardest time actually sitting down and WRITING the stories - thinking them up is the easy part). I hope to post up the first chapter on Fanfiction.net by the end of the weekend, but we'll see.

So overall, a very nice and relaxing break.

Oh, I also discovered the pure joy of McDonald's Iced Coffee!