Work after holidays

Why do we always have the feeling that holidays are short?

After two weeks of pure entertainment and pleasure (you dirty minds!!) I had to come back to Birmingham, sponsored by Ryanair as usual. The "self-contained flat" where I live was freezing and on the next day I woke up with a beautiful snowfall :) This scenario kept repeating for a few days giving me enough time to develop a nice strategy to not fall in the side walk: walking on the grass is much less dangerous! ;)
I had this thing (they call it compulsory exam) on Wednesday, something about statistics for post-graduates and I had only 3 (long) days to study for what turn out to be an exam impossible to fail: we could consult the handouts, which actually helped me to answer a whole group of theoretical questions by looking (for the first time) into the corresponding slides; many of the exercises had an working example counterpart in the notes; 55 questions for 1h45m and of course the pass mark was (I wonder if this is the only place in the world where this is so...!) of 40% !!!
Ok, no, I didn't scored 100% (not even after passing the tight evaluation of Professor Dinis Pestana, that great Statistician!), I couldn't do better than 74% :(
(what you're looking at? I'm in the "First" range! ahah lol...)

In this same week I had to finish my 3 month report... where I learned how to do a gantt chart and realize how empty and meaningless it can be...Nevertheless, is was worth to see the long time and work I still have to... to do what? let's make a list:
- travel to exotic places
- meet extravagant people
- discuss the state of the world with creative/optimistic minds
- visit all my friends around the world (I know I owe you that ;) )
- spend time doing nothing
- learn how to not stress
- laugh every day
- develop the multiscale model, write the thesis and go to somewhere sunny! :))

Totally doable :D