Pre-Thanksgiving blues

This past month has brought new meaning to the word "busy". I am mentally and psychologically fried due to the tremendous amount of homework, tests and reading I've had to complete over the past few weeks.

At least I'm learning a lot and doing well in my classes, although I've discovered that there are stupid graduate students here in West Virginia too. I get so incredibly frustrated with fellow grad students who do things like chew gum while giving a presentation or refuse to do their part in group projects that make people. I recently had to play the part of 'group nag' by forcing other members of a group project to actually do their part of presentation.

Thus is life in graduate school, I guess. I'm actually going to take some time off and hang with my mom this week. She's flying into Pittsburgh this Saturday and we're going to find some (hopefully) good shopping, food and cultural things to do over the weekend there and then head down to Morgantown for the rest of the week. Unfortunately, due to the irresponsiblity of my fellow group members in the aforementioned group project, I will not complete all my work before Thanksgiving break so I'll have to spend some time writing a paper for my public policy class.

At least, my beloved Project Runway is on tonight. Long live Tim Gunn.