Impending Doom

This week I was just minding my own business: re-aligning the laser, programming a new interface. Then all of a sudden the graduate committee puts a little gift in my mailbox: prelim tests from the past 5 years. That's 45 hours (5 versions of a 9 hour test) worth of test material to look through. The plan was and still is to wait until August to drop everything else in my life and start studying. But now there's a stack of nastiness silently threatening me from a drawer in my desk. I want so badly to ignore it. I have so many other things to do that are much more fun than studying. My past experience wants me to Stick it to the Man and not study at all (NOT an option for this beast). And part of me also knows that I can only panickily study for so long before . . . well I'm not sure what happens.

So while I'm purposely procrastinating that, I'm finding things to distract myself. Projects to learn about or improve the system are popping up much faster than before, so staying busy at work/school is far from the problem it used to be. Also, for the first time in years it seems, I have a calling that requires work on days other than Sunday. Not that I can really call playing frisbee with the young men "work." The new presidency is still getting organized, and I'm getting anxious to get the show going. They are a fun group to teach, I'm curious about how the church has changed the programs since my day, and I'm excited to go camping. I see a big challenge in finding the line between having fun being friends with the boys and being an example of responsibility. Trial and error works with bonfires, too, right?