I’ll admit that over the last few months I’ve been a bit frazzled beyond what is probably good for my health. Recently however I have been able to decompress quite a bit. All of the work stress is still there, in fact this week has been particularly stressful but because I am now in somewhat more familiar territory in my studies and have finally settled into my new house I have been able to finally relax. Sure the school work is demanding but I actually enjoy reading managerial books especially those concerning themselves with leadership. At times it hardly feels like work. But numbers? Not so much.

It was an odd sensation spending the first month in my new house. Believe it or not I actually got lost a couple of times coming home from work the first week. I would bump into things in the dark and could never find the light switches. I would take a shower and half expect some stranger to pop in and demand to know why I was in their house. Everything I owned, including my books were in various boxes scattered throughout the house and something as simple as finding a matching clean pair of socks was akin to the search for the lost temple of Solomon. It’s much better now that things are unpacked, I know how to get home from virtually anywhere in my immediate block and I know exactly where my clean socks are. Why just today I finally got my new washer and dryer correctly installed and working. No more Laundromat for this guy, bygone are the days of the mysterious spots on my shirts fresh after wash.

And to put the cherry on the cake I have a new dog. His name is Church, he is a brindle English Mastiff and though he is huge and intimidating he is just a big drooling bundle of love. And don’t tell anyone but he tends to be a little sensitive too. His favorite pastimes are fetching the ball, and then chewing it to pieces when fetch gets too mundane, chasing my cats and of course lying on the floor next to my chair as I type this blog and do homework.

Class is going well. I received last week’s grades and scored 100% on everything so I’m hoping for a repeat for my efforts this week. I have noticed that in the discussion posts my peers have really stepped up their game forcing me to of course respond in kind. What can I say? I’m a born and bred competitor.