Busy month.

Finally, I moved out and live alone. It's a small, spartan one-bedroom apartment technically located outside the city, and therefore rented for adequately cheap. The biggest gripe is the lack of oven, but I've arranged for Remoska. Gonna use that South-facing window and plant some vegetables this weekend, too.

I stopped learning Italian after six months. Understand enough to get some use out of it, don't plan on ever speaking it, and that's fine with me. One near-pass on New Year's resolution isn't that bad.

One of my students has been getting on my nerves almost since the semester started, and it'll be best for the other TA to examine them. Poor incorrigible dumbass. As a rule, I go easy on non-STEMs as long as they're trying. The same can't be said about my colleague.

Got my thesis topic accepted and started writing. I was also selected for a grant placement at our interdisciplinary research group.

The last couple of weeks were dramatastic, to say the least, but I'm slowly distancing myself from bullshit and regain some much-needed clarity.