I know it's a 4000 level class, and I know it's going to kick my ass later in the year...

...but damn do I love contemporary political ideologies. We're discussing Freud and Hegel right now, and it's brilliant.

We get this eccentric little Chinese professor as a guest lecturer half the time, and he comes into class late with his hair sticking up all over the place. It's lovely. He makes fun of the British royal family and bitches about the plumbers trying to fix his house, and then turns around and discusses Civilization and its Discontents in his next breath.

I really like this school. I'm applying to be an RA next year...its pretty competitive, with probably like thirty five people applying for about ten positions, so we'll see.

May your weather be better than ours, even though ours is prettier (fog + streetlights + snow = beauty).