What’s up, y’all. As I sit here typing, I am on the verge of passing out from exhaustion because it’s been such a long quarter. Fortunately, it is now officially over because I just emailed my last final paper to my “History of African-American Education” professor. It feels good to be done, but I have to kick myself because I cut it way too close on my assignments for the end of the Fall quarter. As I said in my last entry, I had a ton of things due in the final week and a half of the quarter and I let job interviews cause me to get a late start on everything. This last Education paper isn’t due until Monday at 5pm PST, but I had absolutely nothing written until 9pm last night (Saturday). In fact, I didn’t even start trying to gather my resources (books and articles) until Thursday afternoon because my other assignments kept me from being able to start on this one and, by then, many of my desired sources were unavailable. Thank goodness for Google because I found a ton of great stuff on there that allowed me to source information for my paper. When it came to actually writing the paper, I was a MONSTER and was able to knock out 22.5 pages in less than 27 hours. I don’t think I’ve ever written anything at such a pace in my entire life and the only thing I’ve ever written as longer than this was my 85+ page senior thesis at Princeton. Unfortunately, it usually isn’t possible for me to write for quality when I write for speed, so this paper is AWFUL!!! I know that I’m usually a pretty tough judge of my own stuff, but there is no way that I should get a good grade on this joint. I’m just hoping that my professor takes pity on me and gives me a B so I can count it toward my Ed. School credits toward the MA.Ed degree.

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that I’m back in VA right now and have been since last night. I came back before the due date for this last paper so I’d be able to spend a few days visiting my family before embarking on the highlight of my Winter break, a 10-day trip down to Brazil…that’s right…BRAZIL BABY!!! I’m going to be meeting up with three of my four roomies down there to kick it and we’re also supposed to link up with a group of folks from our class at the GSB. We’re all leaving on the 13^th and will arrive on the 14^th and will stay down there until the 23^rd and arrive back in the US on the 24^th just in time for Christmas. I’ve never been down to brazil before, but, from what I’ve heard about the party scene and seen in the Snoop Dogg “Beautiful” video, it should be a great trip. And, I definitely learned my lesson from the September trip to Asia so I won’t be getting into any potential scuffles with the locals. If they mess with my drinks, I’ll just let it ride…I’m not trying to get locked up in a South American jail because I’m not enough of a baller yet for anyone in America to come to my aid if I get hemmed up.