Stress and insanity; school and work.

Well. It begins.

I managed, just barely, through begging, borrowing, thriftiness and deft maneuvering to avert a financial disaster and pay for my last semester of graduate school ... at least for the moment.

I further managed to narrowly avoid class registration disasters with Arizona State Univ., which required further deft maneuvering and mid-day direction changes, many flying e-mails, etc., etc., etc. So the upshot is that I'm now a full-time sit-in-class graduate student for the first (and last) time in my library science master's career.

And, not to put too fine a point on it, it's gonna just plain suck. For the next 3.5 months I will have, in essence, no free time, no leisure time, no time to eat and no time to sleep. I have to skip or curtail lunches at work to make up for the time that I'm away at classes; I have to set aside most of even the simplest household tasks in order to have time to do my various legion and hefty school projects and homework.

A thousand ways to fail, and only one to succeed (by avoiding all of the ways I can fail). And barely enough money to squeak by on.

I've really never had to focus this hard on going this hard for this long. I'm a little scared.

Should be some interesting classes, though.

But if you write to me between now and the end of the year and I don't answer, or answer briefly or not entirely appropriately, don't take it personally. After I walk in December, I'll be back to normal. So to speak.