When School Isn't...Fine

It's been about six weeks since I moved to London and I'm often asked how school is going.  Most of the time, the answer is "fine."  Yes, it's been an adjustment being back in a classroom after years of working, but it's usually...fine.  Today it isn't fine.  Today I'm tired.  In addition to my usual lectures and seminars, this week I have a finance exam, a presentation looking at Nintendo's strategy for launching Wii in China (umm...OK?), an on-going project for International Buyer Behavior on online shopping and I'm leading a workshop group on IKEA's foreign market expansion (I also have projects pending on Kodak and Tiffany & Co. but they'll have to wait).  In fact, I should be working diligently on one of those endeavors right now, but I figured I deserved a much needed break to complain.  If I were back in Arkansas right now, I'd make my sisters take me to Sonic for a Mocha Java Chiller and possibly a fieldtrip to Wal-Mart for white-out and more highlighters (which would result in an hour's diversion as we looked at Halloween candy and tried on clearance tank tops).  It's hard to be "fine" when you can't ditch the Wii project and go to Wal-Mart.  There's no Wal-Mart, no Sonic, no sisters down the street, no Dad to say, "quit your bellyaching" (OK, I don't miss that).  Alas, it's just me and all these piles of papers and books and journal articles and stupid TWO HOLE punch (don't even get me started...) 

So ask me how school is another time [sigh]