Good morning.

My new floor is younger and a bit louder than last year's. The girls are still quiet, with the exception of Julie, but the guys are what I like to call "social." "Social" is a fantastic thing, I am thrilled that they are "social," but they are "social" at 3:12AM when I am attempting to sleep long enough to make waking up at 6:30AM to turn myself into a presentable human being for my 8am classes possible. So "social" is not always a good thing. At least they are not "assholes."

I'm trying a new thing this year - I'm calling it "doing the reading." Also, "not falling behind." At the moment I'm trying another new thing, calling it "staying awake." I rolled out of bed at 7:30 (blaming my "social" guys for that one) and made it to class, but alas neglected to make myself an entirely presentable human being. I pretended to be one for a meeting at UCTV with a furniture vendor representative who wants to sell us "edgy, fun furniture solutions" for the new studio, but the charade is really starting to fall apart. So I'm going to go try and put it together, and hopefully cram enough Advanced Accounting knowledge into my brain to make it through another textbook- and main point-lacking lecture with a former PriceWaterhouseCoopers partner masquerading as an accounting instructor, then put on an enthusiastic, get-involved face for the Involvement Fair, then spend the rest of the night doing that reading thing again. I think I should start drinking a lot more coffee.