our house is now "American"

my dad has been staying with us for 3 weeks(?) now. slowly, our household is becoming normalized. here are a few, new American additions:

• coffee EVERY morning instead of sometimes tea
• football on the TV
• lots more chicken
  
• lots more bread
• gin
• American movies
• video games
• in-house handyman

in other news, classes have started. here are the classes i am taking:

• international trade law with tiny, chinese professor. i think this class will nicely compliment the economics of trade class i took last year. but the book is big and scary and i sometimes glaze over when i start reading the legalese. and i am comforted to now know that i am much more competent than most law students, even the ones dressed in ann taylor with pearl earrings.
• ethics with hippy/peace corps vet philosophy professor. we are reading a lot of international/ human rights topics, which will piss off many in my class but at least we are not reading about social security or medicare
• program evaluation-- i am betting this class will be laid back and easy. except by tomorrow i am supposed to have read a book which i do not have yet. already behind!
• independent study-- did i bite off too much to chew?

i am now listening to wait, wait don't tell me and trying to write about criticisms of the nobel prizes...