Making our way back from Mars

I feel like time is going so quickly lately. I haven't really been properly bored in so very long. Because with this Ph.D. I feel like I should constantly be doing something, so whenever I find myself just sitting with nothing to do I tend to appreciate it a whole lot more.

I'm already almost 4 months into it and feel like it's going absolutely nowhere. I'm not even remotely close to being able to do anything constructive. I just keep reading new stuff, and I've spend ages reading about something and trying to understand it, then got put onto something completely different and now I'm trying to learn and understand that.
I have however realised recently that I still remember stuff I learnt last year.

It's my birthday in a few days. I'm turning 23. Fuck.
I wish I had planned some kind of party but I don't have a venue that would be big enough for an awesome one and a small one would probably turn out average.