This fall may well keeeelll me daid.

So. I signed up for a class this fall. I don't need it for my masters, but it's an incredibly interesting topic and in a research area that is becoming very important.

However.

This fall, in addition to this class I have to:

- shepherd Perry through his college application progress
- go to Boston Wed-Sun one week, missing a class
- get kittens
- finish my effing RESEARCH
- get my thesis outlined, planned, and writing well on its way.

Remember that much of this involves a 90 mile each way commute.

There are two other reasons I signed up. The class' major requirement is a 40 minute presentation. I was supposed to have done one of those already but because of time constraints, I've never done more than 30 minutes by myself. Since I will have a thesis presentation to do, hopefully Winter quarter (I hope!), I'd like the practice of a longer talk.

The final reason is that I tend to function better with deadlines and structure. I can manage my own time, but I do find it easier to do stuff that is not on a deadline when I have other deadlines. Time becomes a precious commodity.

Still, I may be slightly manic by the end of October or early November.