3 more weeks...

....feels like an eternity. Perhaps it's the amount of work that looms, or maybe it's the sheer importance of doing the work well in order to finish successfully. I don't think I've fully learned how to work the system, I still believe that I'll never fully have that talent... but I do think it has been possible for me to start tapping into it. Nonetheless, two major things are leaving me shaking in my panties: the evil research design presentation and essay for IR (hack, stats) and the evil term paper for Issues of Crit. Once each of those are finished those two classes will be fini and I'll have 3 others to painfully forge through. I should keep my chin up, we're close.

It's been tough to keep my chin up when my head feels like a giant cotton ball. Last night I tried to sit down to think coherently but my eyes burned and no matter how many Halls I ate I didn't feel any better. But if this is the worst it's going to be I suppose it's not that bad.

Of course, I've been to sick to do schoolwork but I certainly haven't been sick enough to not ride. LRO requires much attention. We've been taking time out of ring work to hack out in the field and down the road... even shifting into extra canter gear. The LRO likes to gallop! (oh yippie!)

Still feeling overwhelmed with the La, not quite sure how to incorporate both into a training program. I think that I'll work with her when I have a somewhat free day... but I have to get a bridle/bit together first, so that slows the process. She's baby baby and makes LRO feel like an old man so the La will need more in-hand ground work. She's more of what I was expecting to find.

I've been anxiously waiting for a phone call from AVH... fretting that he has cold feet, or that something has changed because of too much salt water or sun or too many sunrises/sets. This had been part of my original hesitation for these weeks... why I've felt funny about writing emails left unread for weeks, but still writing them anyways.

I'm ready for vacation again.