Update

The myth that I would have more time to do my own work because I wasn't teaching this year has been officially shattered.  I have not actually had more free time, now I just get everything done instead of half-assing most of my work.  It is the ongoing mystery of graduate school: how do you have time to do research when being a graduate student keeps getting in the way.  That said I have been relatively productive- for instance today I read a book on coffee and land policy in colonial Guatemala.

Here is what has been happing (a photo montage): 

Halloween, maybe not the best representation of our department, or really of Jersey...

DJ Pauly D (me), la diabla, and Snookie

At da club
Yes- that is my advisor dressed as a church lady
and TM dressed as Guy F from the Food Channel

As you can imagine this required some recovery time... and a lot of scrubbing to get all the bronzer off.  But we were perhaps the best costumes in town.

 I needed to make up for lost time spent getting my Gym, Tan, Laundry on in preparation for Halloween.

Quiet Saturday Study Time in the PhD office

Denying the onset of winter with a decidedly summer dinner of crudités and mint yogurt dip