Spring break starts for me in less than 24 hours.  And while I’ll probably take my time getting my grades done and will even go work in my classroom some over break, it’s the fact and the feeling of a kind of freedom that’s so exciting.

A few days ago I mentioned my spring break reading list: a nice and tidy collection of novel, sociological-ish, and educational stuff.  I even had a movie on order.  Well, that list has grown some, and all thanks to what Alan Jacobs calls “reading upstream.”  And so now I’ve also started on Brooks’ The Social Animal and Turkle’s Alone Together.  I’m already a good chunk into both, and both are fascinating and strangely convicting.  I’ve even added a second movie to the mix: Bright Star.  It’s about a writer, John Keats, but it’s also unabashedly romantic, which will be out of my zone.  But it got name-dropped in something I was reading and was also on sale and Barnes & Noble, so there you go.

I’m oddly excited about break.  It looks to be the only break this year where I don’t travel, so I’m hoping to get a good routine down quickly.  I’ve been getting through a cold all week, which has also made tomorrow’s “light at the end of the tunnel” more exciting.  I’d love to wake up soon and be done with the sniffling and sneezing.

Money quote from the mind of Donald Miller: “I used to think I needed stuff and status to be content.  But all I needed was faith, a good project, and a loving friend.”

Let the break begin!