I'm sitting at work being paid to do nothing at the moment. Exams are over and now I'm just waiting for the pass fail notice in the mail. This last year has been crazy hard, I can't seem to shake the stress, so I haven't been sleeping well since exams ended. That was two weeks ago. Despite that, I've managed to only remember the enjoyable parts of the year, my wonderful neighbors, the engaging courses, the fun of conquering this challenge. So, I'm glad I did it.

Stephen and I move to Jerusalem in about a month. I'm not sure how I feel about it. I've been missing America, not any place in America but the feeling of being there. I miss the carelessness of it, the ease of living where things just make sense or non-sense in exactly the way you expect them to.

But I think the next two years will also be great! Stephen and I already have friends in Israel, people we met this year who were visiting scholars at the Jewish Studies Center in Oxford, and friends of his from when he lived there before. Jerusalem is such a crazy place and it draws such strange characters from all sorts of religious backgrounds. I'm looking forward to joining them.