Things that make me wish I weren't a student:

-having no time to make real, homemade meals on a regular basis

-having no down time because of homework

-never knowing what to address my professors as (professor? doctor? just their last name? by their first name if they're cool and hep?)

-having to walk to school and back home in the snow

-not having a real income, but having a career (basically... grad school is a career, right?)

-sitting in classrooms without windows for hours on end every single day

Things that make me want to never leave school:

-learning cool stuff

-being pretentious

-the feeling of accomplishment after a good paper, test, or project

-being on the same intelligence level as most of the people around me

-researching awesome stuff

-not having to start a "real" career

-access to all the amenities on campus

-discounts at grocery stores

I've got a lifetime of knowledge

Things that are easy:
-coming up with strange party ideas
-talking about things in the abstract
-the basic level of research
-making up things
-abstaining from bread (it's surprisingly easy)
-eating healthily

Things that are easier:
-procrastination, especially if justified
-listening to the album "Justified"
-eating poorly
-shopping
-coming up with new careers that don't require as much work

Things that are hard:
-intense, genuine research
-writing a paper in a normal amount of time
-abstaining from chocolate or sugar
-sleeping when stressed
-keeping a good manicure
-sticking to a strict schedule

CNN

Good News of the Week:
-ORCA grant ($1500 mentored research grant)
-I got 3 professors who know me fairly well to write my letters of recommendation
-I got mail
-Roommate's birthday
-Free dinners several times
-Birthday dinner from Zupas
-Key Lime Pie from the Village Inn (delicious)
-Not failing my classes
-No Latin on Friday (test in the testing center...)
-Dad's surgery went well
-Good friends
-Good LOST episode (ie any episode with Ben)
-Chocolate
-Finished a project for work
-Pepe le Moko
-Presented biography in German class and didn't make total fool of self
-Not called on in Latin class when unprepared this morning!

Real Life

Tests I have to take this week:
-Fascism
-Philosophy
-French
-Reformation (map quiz)

Papers I have to write this week:
-Judaism

Stores I went shopping in yesterday:
-Forever XXI
-The Gap
-Express
-Banana Republic
-Trade Secret
-Target
-Victoria Secret
-DownEast Outfitters

How many hours I've studied so far this weekend:
-around one
-more later today