Best feeling in the world!

I got home from work yesterday around 4:30. I left a little early, don't tell anyone. For some reason the minute I walked through my door I felt a sudden panic. I couldn't really explain why. It may have something to do with the huge 35 page research paper I just handed in a week ago for my capstone, Democratic Governance. (Don't ask, just go with it.) The thing made my hair fall out and I don't have much anyway. I'm almost bald, but that's beside the point. For the past 5 years of my life there has been a paper due, a homework assignment to turn in, a book to read, or an article to research and take notes over. Always a deadline and something to get stressed out about. When I arrived at my (sometimes) cozy little apartment I freaked and just knew there was something I had to do but fortunately all I had on my plate for the evening was washing a crockpot I made creamcheese corn in earlier for a hall luncheon and then read a book by Sen. Trent Lott that one of my political junkie friends gave me for Christmas. My apartment was clean, or in my book what I consider clean anyway, I literally had one dirty dish, which is huge because I don't have a dishwasher and my toilet bowl was spotless. (I'm OCD about certain things.) It was absolutely the best feeling in the world and I'm not exagerrating. I don't think I'll have stress in my life again until I have kids. Seriously, nothing freaks me out more than trying to squeeze 8 pages out of a 3 page topic and now I just don't have to do it anymore. It is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G. Why would anyone ever go back to school? I can't even entertain the thought.