The time has come for another blog post!

We've decided that once every 6 months is an appropriate spacing of blog posts given the pace of our lives right now. People ask us "hows grad school" and we let out a joint reply/ moan "its fiiine" or we're feeling enthusiastic "thank goodness this year is almost over!" Although we are thrilled to be continuing our studies at the same time/ place it is having an effect on how interesting our lives are. The day generally goes:

1)Roll out of bed 15 minutes after the alarm goes off.
2) Finish the reading/ paper writing we didn't complete the night before because our brains were mush.
3) Realize we forgot to start the coffee pot 15 minutes before we're supposed to run out the door.
4) Realize we still have to shower 12 minutes before we're supposed to run out the door.
5) Realize we haven't made lunch when we are supposed to be leaving and either
a) make a fast pb&j
b) grab some odd combo of snacks such as string cheese, apple and granola bar & hope
we're not hungry that day.
c) Give in and buy lunch - bagel or poptarts for Nate, egg sandwich for Emily usually
6) We head off to our respective classes, where we spend 6-9 hours listening to lectures, pretending we thoroughly read articles, have small moments of brilliance followed by hours of feeling overwhelmed, and procrastinating doing other work by checking Vulture, NYTimes.com, and other blogs ( esp. http://noofandnoel.tumblr.com/).

6) Get home between 5:30 and 8 , depending on the day, eat dinner, do more work, watch an episode of something on Roku, do more work but then not finish it because our brains feel like mush and head to bed.

This is the general pattern of daily life, with the exception of a few wonderful adventures : friends visiting, birthdays, beer brewing, cars breaking down on 81 on the way back from Montreal, sit down dinners, beautiful days that require long walks around the downtown mall. Although the moments are rare, I suppose they are worth documenting. If anything to remind us that we are more than the sum of our syllabus assignments.

PS - this posting is for you Nefret. And yes, it was done as a distraction from writing my 5 papers.