Well it's Friday night. We are definitely close to the end of the semester, as I have joined the other students here at Peoples (Berkeley coffee shop) tonight for a good study atmosphere away from home. There's just under 3 weeks worth of class left...and am I feeling it. I have three papers to write this weekend, all which should have been turned in earlier of course... Thankfully I have great professors who understand that sometimes life or class gets in the way and they can grace us enough to turn things in when they're done instead of by the deadline. Unfortunately that can be the worst news ever for me in writing papers...I'm so much better with a hard deadline b/c I work well under pressure! So nonetheless, here I am trying to meet my own deadline, procrastinating (obviously), and wishing that somehow these papers would write themselves. I enjoy the writing process, but it is a lengthy one for me, thus quite dreaded indeed. At least I have some good tunes to keep me company...EC gave me the new John Mayer, Battle Studies, this week. It's pretty great. I recommend it if you like some heart-felt lyrics, driven melodies, lots of musical layers, and some tasty blues every once in a while.
I'm heading back to the Midwest for Thanksgiving! Getting pretty excited. 5 days, I think? I'm trying not to count on account of all that work that needs to get done before leaving... I'll fly into MSP where TH will pick me up and we'll make the 3.5 hour trek to my parents' house for a long weekend. Eventually the group will include my grandparents, aunt and uncle, cousins, brother, parents, maybe a sister and another uncle. I'm under the impression that there will be no snow. So unlike the Thanksgivings past. I'm excited nonetheless - excited to see family and friends (maybe even KS and her husband!), and the family dog, of course. I'm even looking forward to those legendary conversations that come up only at family gatherings of this kind. Watching the Packers, eating turkey and all the fixin's, the cool Midwest air that smells of winter approaching, fires in the fireplace... Should be a great holiday. I love Thanksgiving. I hope yours is full of what you need this year...and may we all recognize and be thankful for the many gifts in our lives.
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