The Ides of March are now behind us...

...but the torment of March classes continue. As the semester continues onward, I find myself in the middle of many rocks and hard places. I just finished our play, Beauty and the Beast, this past Thursday (which was AMAZING, as can be shown in the pictures), I finally have a little bit more free time at my disposal. No more 4 days a week rehearsals. No more traveling for shows in Haifa, Tel Aviv, or Jerusalem. It was fun, and tiring, and extremely hot in that suit of armor, but such is life. I'm still teaching Spanish (this coming week I have to go into work 4 times, which may indeed be a record), and my classes continue to swamp me (I have two quizzes this coming week, a lab report due, a huge project due soon enough, and I still have so much material left undone). This is, fortunately, the last semester that I will have more than one class at a time (I can only hope), so I'm really pushing to get through it, and hopefully I'll be able to. Then I can finally focus on one class at a time.
I just got a new roommate (actually, a husband and wife), a fourth year from our program, who just matched at his top choice residency program!!! I also accidentally broke a window in their room right before they got here, so we're hopefully getting all of the windows in the apartment redone, at a measly cost to me of 2500 NIS (okay, not measly at all, but that's out of the 6500 NIS of which my landlady will pay the rest, and I'm excited for new windows).
Besides that, I've been pushing to get out for pretty much every Shabbat (this week I was at my friend's house, the week before I was camped out at the beach of Ein Gedi, and the week before that I was at the apartment of a friend in Tel Aviv), trying to escape the suffocation that a place can have on you if you're there too long. It's been pretty great, and my parents are coming in this week, which is even better! I hope they'll enjoy their vacation here, too. I can't wait for Passover in Eilat (although I'm pretty convinced I've been mentally checked out on vacation this entire year). So yeah, that's pretty much it for now. Hope that your lives, dear readers, are also coming along well. So long for now!