I might've mentioned this before, but I am one lucky girl.

Sometimes I forget this. I enjoy school immensely, but I do tend to get caught up and stress out about it a little more than is probably good for me. (Was I up until two last night rewriting a paper that I rewrote completely again, for the third time, after I woke up? Yes. Yes, I was. Am I going to get an A on that dang paper? You bet I am.)

Those times are when I need little reminders of how lucky I actually am.

Reminders like this:

I wish I'd thought to bring along my wide-angle lens, which would've made for a much better photo, but that will have to wait for another day.

Early last week, after a two hour long Astronomy lecture that dragged on for what felt like five hours, I decided that being productive was overrated. With a little bit of time to kill before I had to be at work, I threw on my swimsuit, grabbed my towel and a book and walked three minutes to the beach, to sit in the shade and ignore the fact that I had chapters of studying to do and pages of papers waiting to be written. It was one of the best decisions I made all week.