Ah, freedom... well, relative freedom anyway. I just polished off the last exam of this semester and won't be headed back to the classroom for about a month, although I'm anything but relieved. I still have a tangle of red tape (made all the more appropriate being that I'm at Rutgers) to fight through in my quest to get into evolutionary anthropology, which is all I really want for Christmas. Maybe I should put out some turnips, a pork pie, and some sherry and ask the Hogfather...
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