It was a LATE night!! 
Our potluck-crafts night was an awesome time.  It was nice to see some people that I don't get to hang out with very often.  Also nice to meet new people.  We sat up until around 4am before we decided to call it quits.  It was fun and the food was great. 
I was thinking that it might have been even more fun with a few more people, but then I thought about it and frankly, I'm positive that there would have been at least one death.  Either on purpose or accidentally, it doesn't matter.  More than six people in my tiny house carrying scissors, scalpels, exacto knives, fine-tipped markers and various other sharp instruments of death simultaneously wouldn't have been a good thing no matter how you look at it.  You gotta watch yourself around those fine-tipped markers.  Those suckers can be deadly.

School is progressing, although it is the last two weeks of the term coming up and things are getting hairy.  I find myself buried under mountains of work and truthfully, I should be working on my term paper right now instead of updating my blog.  I know that sometimes a person needs a break from school work, but I feel guilty for taking them, like last night.  I just have so much to do.  At the same time, I need them or I will go insane.  So I'm trying to find a healthy and productive balance.  It's harder than I thought it was going to be.

Maybe that's what I should write my term paper on.  Guilt over not having enough time for friends, family, school, household duties and work.  How and why does it manifest and what are long and short-term psycholog ical consequences on surrounding friends and family.  Maybe I could throw in some coping strategies and theories on why some people are better able to juggle these things than others.  Hmmm.  Interesting idea.  I've been having many interesting ideas in the last few days.  It makes deciding on a topic very difficult.  Maybe I could get some input from some friends I know who are also having trouble balancing everything. 

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