3 more weeks.

it's hard to believe it, but the semester is in the home stretch. three more weeks, 70+ papers to grade, 225 finals to grade, one paper to write, one preliminary paper, and two more stats homeworks and i will have become a 2nd year grad student. yay me. needless to say, it's been extremely crazy busy the last few days and everyone is stressed out and cranky. this might only get worse. academics are a moody group. seriously. beware. i might have rants and bitch-fests for the next few weeks.

my mom came up last weekend. it was absolutely wonderful :-). zoe laid off the "nip" for the weekend and behaved herself until she warmed up to my mom and then she became a terrorist. my mom and i crammed in the MA experience: boston, hiking, Easter dinner with the neighbor, and yankee candle (90K square feet of scented wax and home decoration stuff). we didn't actually do the noho thing, but that means we'll do it when she (hopefully) comes up this summer. the only thing missing from the visit was my dad, but it was still a lot of fun.

i get to go home in a few weeks. this could potentially screw me over, but it'll be good because i want to see my family so badly. plus, i'm speaking at my alma mater :-D.

okay, back to reading on world-system theory. sigh.