Happy Thanksgiving

Last night a group comprised mostly of other first-year TASP interns (current or former) got together for a traditional Thanksgiving dinner. It was a lot of fun, and the food was absolutely amazing. I enjoyed myself thoroughly, despite the fact I unanimously voted the party pooper for not playing Cranium and leaving early. I left because I felt horrible (the fast-paced weather change has wrecked havoc on my body...it seems confused by the whole thing), and I didn't play Cranium so they would remain my friends. It really boils down to the same reason I can't ever set foot in a go-cart when I'm around those I love. It's this whole Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde complex. Seriously...I turn evil. It's dangerous.



Today I've done remarkably little. Of course that's par for the course when one considers my normal activities on Friday. I know all I have is a cold, but I seriously feel as if a rather large and powerful truck has run me over a few times. Tiffany, displaying once more her overwhelming kindness and generosity, brought me leftovers from Thanksgiving dinner. The problem I had in getting food for myself was that there's a mini-grocery store near my house, and that's about as much energy as I could muster up this morning. I wanted soup...and couldn't find any. Turns out canned soup isn't popular here. To be more appropriate, I don't think it even exists here. Nonetheless, thanks to Tiffany, I was nourished, and actually feel much better now. I cleaned my apartment some, and came down to the internet cafe to get some articles I need to do an assignment for class on Sunday. In this matter though, I was overwhelmingly productive. I only had to find one or two articles, and I think I found five. Good for me. This class (quantitative research methods) has a paper that is a joint effort (there's three of us in my group) and will make up 50% of our grade. Yeah...no pressure. Anyway, we're going to research the attitude of Arab students towards Hebrew and English (respectively). The research will be done at my school, and is something I'm very much looking forward to. It's hardcore though...our teacher is serious about us doing the entire process right. And as much as I'd like to shrug it off as her being anal, it's actually really important. Sooner or later (though it's really too soon for my taste) I'm going to have to write a thesis. Then I will appreciate the pain-staking detail we have to put towards every assignment for this class.



On that note, I'm going to go brave the cold and head back home. Sorry for my entirely unpleasant last post. It wasn't such a great day. Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!