(exhausted)

Update on "down":

Not done with either paper. I have done a lot of research on both of them, and started rewriting my portfolio paper. I only had two hours of sleep last night because I was working on it. Had a meeting with my advisor, we made a plan: I will meet with Dr. R on Friday at 4:00 (I rescheduled my original meeting), go over my completed draft (which I will have worked on all day Friday) and then don't touch it again until Monday. He wants me to take a break from it--thinks (from looking at me) that I'm stressing myself out too much over it. I send it to him by that Thursday, he will look it over, send it back the following Monday, and I will have a week to work on it. In the meantime, I will also have two of my friends look it over for me. By noon on February 26, this portfolio nightmare will be over.

Now I just have to figure out when to work on that book chapter, which is late, but they seem pretty flexible. And if they're not...I'm tired enough not to care at this point. Tonight is just rest time before I get up early tomorrow to read lots of ethnographic stuff. Thanks to all who prayed, and I could still use it the next few weeks.