Therapy has been going well so far. I've had two sessions the guy I'm working with seems to be pretty good. A huge difference between this guy and the last one I tried, so I'm really hoping it goes well.

A friend pointed out it's less than one month before classes start. In that time I have: IRB submission for my thesis, a conference during which my team is doing a poster presentation, a 14 hour one way drive home, a week and a half there, and then the return drive. 2-3 day drive depending on timing and how my girlfriend is feeling (COVID recovery is not going well), preparation for classes to start, my girlfriend returning after 2 months abroad and working to improve that relationship which distance has not been kind to but we've both discussed and are still fully dedicated to working through everything, and absolutely no time to relax for myself. So it's been stressful. And it's not going to stop anytime soon. I'm beyond ready to be done with grad school and feel like I have a life again. Money, free time, less stress. I miss the real world.

And since I know you're curious, yes it's the same picture as the last time I had to #bootlegpubski and it's from the moonshining subreddit /r/firewater. I really want to get into home distillation to feed into my gin obsession and really play around, but it's federally illegal and homie don't play that game so it's really just living vicariously through the people who post about it online.