Happy 2011 friends!  I know it is a little late to be saying that, but we just started back to class this week, so this has been the first week I have been organized enough to get on the blog.  I have new classes this term and I think I am going to like them much more than the classes I had last term.  I am taking my core class in Politics and Society (the same as last term) and then I am taking a course on Partisanship in Europe and one on Political Behaviour in Europe (note the spelling...I have been getting endless grief for spelling like an American).  The entire grade in the Political Behaviour class is based on a 5,000 word essay that I am going to write on Margaret Thatcher.  It's going to be awesome.  I also had to decide on a topic for my dissertation.  I am going to compare and contrast the politics of literacy policy in the U.S. and the U.K.  Alright, that is all for now folks!  Talk soon!