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"What've you done since you've been home?

Nothing."

That's what she says to me

It's been a week, and I've done plenty

Yet as usual it isn't enough

She's all too quick to peg me as useless

Instead of bothering to tally up my accomplishments

But no wonder, I suppose

She thinks I accomplished nothing while I was away

And yet in the next breath claims 

"This last semester was the best thing to ever happen to you."

and "You learned more there than anywhere else."

As if it were the truth

When in reality I bet she meant it as celebrating my absence

I don't know

I certainly wasn't homesick for this

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