I need to change what I'm doing, again.

It seems like I can't spend more than a few years doing the same thing before I get bored and need to move elsewhere or do something else for my job. This time I'm getting bored of my PhD program and research. This is seriously bad. I want to finish the degree, but I am not at all interested in what I did before, as in what I did last year is now deathly boring. Ugh. I need to have a chat with my adviser, but I'm scared as to what she'll say. It's not that I *can't* finish what I'm doing here... but at this rate it's going to take me forever to write the dissertation a topic I have completely lost interest in. I need help. I need to find something new to write about, and I need to find it QUICK. Problem is, it's going to be really difficult to find something that interests me enough and fits into the current program such that I don't have to go back to the drawing board. On the other hand, if I stick to the current topic, it might actually take me twice as long because I don't work on things I have no interest in. (When I do like something I pour a lot of time and energy into it and I am successful.) I hate being an indecisive, rootless, and restless/semi-ADD person.

Home is where the heart is

Really. More and more I think that home is where the people I love are--it's not a place. I wish all these people could be literally gathered in one place, but for the meantime, abstracting, they are gathered in my heart.

Conversely, home is also, physically, everywhere for me. C'est pour ça que j'adore la nature. 无论是在什么国家。 我爱派山。在城市里我喜欢跑步，发现新的地方，可是没有nature...完全不一样。Quand je suis en dehors, et particulierement dans les montagnes et il n'y a presque personne, I feel content, breathing in the air and enjoying the stillness of the scenery. I could be on this mountain or any other mountain where I feel the same way, anywhere at all.

The Holidays are coming up!

And you know what that means! Winter break so I can travel to see the people I typically only see these days on Skype videochat! Yeah!