Days away from the 15th circle of Hell

Wow!
what a 2 weeks I've been having. It has been emotional, stressful, sleep depriving...etc etc. I know it sounds like I am describing a torture chamber in China but it is not. It is just Grad School in UCSF.
The good thing is that I am leaving this hell hole for a few days and going to visit my family in Orlando. I keep trying to look thru my list of people I can lean on for comfort but the list is so short. Sometimes I think, "Oh I can lean on my mom and cry and she'll understand and tell me that everything is going to be alright I just need to work hard" but EHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
Nope, mom is not the comforting type. She is the tough love type. It will be more like, "Well why can't you do it are you retarded? Why can't you just be an excellent perfect Grad student? Why are you acting like an idiot? and so on and so on.

I'm thinking that in this trip I'll talk crap with my family. I'll eat Dominican food. Maybe I'll finally learn how to make Salcocho. I'll eat moms food, hang out, drink, cook, run around looking at open houses. And... Just for a few days I'll forget that I am in Grad school and that I suck at it.
I haven't seen my mom in 2 years. Which means that I haven't been in an enviroment that doesn't give a shit about science for 2 years. They don't care if I forgot to put a negative control. They don't care if I didn't test my virus in HeLa cells before trying it on PBL's. And right now thats what I need.