Just want to let everyone know that this is gonna be a very busy month for me. I have to finish my thesis and keep up with classes, which means I've been in the library until midnight or 1 a.m. everyday for the past 2 weeks, including weekends. My schedule will likely stay like this until the end of the school year.

The going is gonna be tough, but I'm excited too. Even though my thesis is a lot of work, it's fun too because it's a topic I'm very passionate about. My topic has changed a bit. I'm no longer trying to explain the causes of the Iraq War, because I realized there's no way I could establish causality between independent and dependent variables, and I could not eliminate alternative hypotheses.

Also, the argument was very rationalist, and my professor said I did not take into account the role of subjective perceptions. So after writing a 40 page paper, I'm starting from scratch. My new topic is "how should we understand the al-Qaeda-U.S. conflict from a theoretical point of view?" Maybe I will post it after I'm finished.

Anyways, I'm determined to give it all I got, so hopefully it will turn out well.

Just wanted to give everyone a heads up that I may not be around often, so my apologies for not being able to keep up with everyone's blogs for the next month. But if you need to get a hold of me just drop me a pm.

Hope everybody else's school year is going well :)

-fuzz