I'm totally procrasting by writing this...

but the assignments I have to work on are kind of pissing me off. How exactly are you supposed to write a coherent editorial on U.S. energy policy in 300 words? Yeah,... no.

I'm actually on the phone with my dad, because it's his birthday, and I'm listening to my family sing "Happy Birthday" to him. It makes me kind of sad and a little homesick again. I couldn't even sing along because my new roommate has been in bed since freaking 8 o'clock.

Seriously, who goes to bed at 8 o'clock? My 80 year-old grandmother doesn't even go to bed that early.

It's actually kind of weird because sometimes she goes to bed crazy early, and other times she's out til 2 am. For the first week, I thought it was just jet-lag from the flight from Korea, but apparently not. And I feel bad for having the lights on and making noise, but if it's before midnight, I feel it's not really "quiet time" yet. She hasn't said anything so far, but there's a bit of a language barrier there.

Ah well, I suppose I should do something productive...