Leo Sweater

So I got my yarn in the mail for the Leo Sweater I am making Jered. I'm not sure if it will turn out quite the way I was hoping. I was looking for a yarn with a similar gauge that was much cheaper than the schurwolle that the pattern calls for so I got Endless Summer -Lara Cotton. I just started the sweater and it feels very thin, but it looks allright so I suppose I'll just keep plugging away. Has anyone had a similar problem with this sweater? Maybe it is just a thinner sweater and I am worrying over nothing.
This week I have Monday and Tuesday off which has been extremely nice. I have a bunch of papers to write by the beginning of November and i've already been able to finish one of them. It is weird not going in to work and class, but weird in a good way! I am getting pretty burnt out with my schedule because Mondays and Tuesdays I seem to go all day (literally from 10 am until 10 p.m.) and then Wednesday-Friday my week is just a few hours of assistantship work. In some ways I like that my week is top heavy, but then Mondays and Tuesdays are freakishly awful.
The nice thing about having a few days off is that we were able to give the apartment a thorough cleaning, which it desperately needed! I still have to do laundry, but that means more knitting time ;)