Today I was able to finish up my last leg of catch-up reading to bring my coursework back up to current material, which frankly didn't seem possible a few days ago. I have more people to thank for that than can reasonably be named here...but you know who you are.

That said, I do feel kind of scared tonight. I'm back in the game as it were, but a part of me worries about the hole I left myself from missing those two exams earlier in the week (one of which was supposed to be a fifth of my grade.)

Also I admit it...SimplyNoise, the white noise site, has been my best friend this week...breaks were taboo this week because I needed to get back to level NOW, because things are going to get harder now that I have l have to start sacrificing time for a media project (I have to watch season one of "Mad Men" for one of my courses). And in another class, I have to use a model that was presented so poorly that I don't understand it and now have to research it on my own, which will almost certainly mean a miss on the first deadline for it.

I shouldn't be saying what I just did, but it's not easy getting a consistent foothold with what I have learned from friends this week, so I feel vulnerable to "one of those nights" tonight. Hopefully leaving this here will help.