Yes, I am back.

There's so much to say, yet I have no idea how to even start. I will probably talk more about my trip say later or tomorrow. I visited mainly San Francisco, LA, Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon.

I spent 2 nights sleeping in airports, before I managed to pick up a friend so we can come back to uiuc together. Bad experience. Major pimple outbreak because of that, not enough sleep, neckache, too-much-expensive-airport-food psychological trauma, blah blah blah. Took me one whole day to recover from that. My friend flew in from Singapore, and she recovered from jetlag faster than I recovered from my airport overdose.

And I still have so much to do. Emails to reply. Tonnes to emails, by the way. argh. Letters to reply, textbooks to buy, my life to re-orientate again, groceries and toiletries to buy..... actually most of them are not urgent, but I just feel so overwhelmed. Does this always happen after a long vacation?

I think it's related to this whole new semester thing too. I'm really looking forward to my new classes, but I have higher expectations for myself this time too. As a direct result of having no social life to distract myself from my work, I should probably make sure I don't struggle through this semester like I did the last one.

Argh, I don't even know what I'm rambling about anymore. There're just too many things running through my head right now.

Basically, just saying, I really enjoyed my trip, but I'm looking forward to when term starts again. I am sort of settled down now, but I still have better plans for my life. Sort of ambiguous, but really, I'm just as confused myself.