I'm back in Richmond. Things are good. School starts in a week and I can hardly contain my excitement. I have a world of things that I need to take care of during this week:

• Readjust to a normal sleep schedule.
  
• Clean - the former tenant didn't really bother with it before moving out and I've been finding all kinds of dust and dirt in different corners of the apartment. Even though I am not the cleanest person in the world, things like that are really starting to bother me.
• Return the camera that I bought before my trip to Best Buy. This may be the sexiest little thing ever made, but the quality of the pictures (and the frustration that goes along with it) doesn't quite cut it. I think I am ready to leave the point and shoot behind and although I'm still not ready to commit to full blown SLRs, there is something better in between that I can settle for with my hard earned money (and no, I know nothing about photography - I just like taking pictures, good pictures, that is).
• Replenish my supply of quad ruled graph notebooks and gel pens (doing math without these two staples is next to impossible).
  
• Bring King Ludovik (the goldfish) home.
• Straighten a couple of bureaucratic messes that happened while I was gone.
  
• Have a birthday - just because birthdays always sounds like a good idea in general.

I still can't believe how fast this summer went by. It feels like it was only a week ago that I had turned in my last take home exam in Econometrics and was finally able to unwind. I had hardly slept the week before that - now the insanity is going to start all over again.

This semester is going to be harder than the previous ones. I am taking Analysis (otherwise known as Intro to Real Analysis); a graduate course in Ordinary Differential Equations; Panel and Non-Linear Methods in Econometrics and Advanced Macroeconomic Theory. Nerd heaven, in short. I hope I do not pass out from anxiety in the process.