I kinda rock

Number of papers finished: 0/2
Number of papers due today, though the due date read Friday, December 15th: 1
Number of emails in response to my WTF should I do? query: 0
Number of meetings with potential dissertation comittee members attended: 1
Number of potential dissertation committee members who sais "sure": 1
Number of really cool oral history projects that I have been asked to be involved with: 1
Number of ways in which this makes me happier to be in grad school: 1 billion

I'd call it a mixed bag, except the good news is so very good and the bad news is so easily overcome.