why

Now I know why I was such a mess yesterday. It's because last year, I was so used to being stressed (what with the packing and the apartment hunting and the road trip and quitting my job and all like that there) that the academic workload was just another flavor of stress and I could adapt to it. This year I went from summer vacation back into an academic workload, which is a bit like stepping out of antigravity and immediately being hit with a ton of bricks.

Be that as it may, I still have to figure out how to deal with it. I didn't retain a whole lot of information from the class I had last night because I was tired and I wanted to be somewhere else. I don't think there was a whole lot of information to retain anyway, but it's not a good pattern to set.

Today in between the coffee hour and class I have to do the last rewrite of this bloody composition. I wish I didn't have to, and I really wish I had made it easier on myself by putting in a second major character from whose perspective to rewrite it. As it is, I've got one major character, two incidental characters and a cat. Come to think of it, I should probably rewrite it from the cat's perspective. At least that would be amusing (for me; I make no guarantees about whether it would be amusing for anybody else).

I wonder how much rewriting I can get done in 40 minutes? At least two paragraphs, I hope. (Pull out umbrella, for want of sword, and yell CHARGE!)