Walking Backwards

I am not doing so well this semester. It is my own fault, I know myself and, if trends are to be followed, this is when I reach burn out phase. I push myself really hard and submerse myself completely in school to the point of excluding all other interests. As you can imagine, this can only be sustained for so long (a year and a half history will tell). I start missing bad movies, concerts, hanging out with my kid at the park, and drinking cheap beer on the patio of seedy bars in downtown Austin. So I remain distracted and don't do even the minimum of what needs to be done to get by. The worst part is that I am distracted by surfing the internet and watching junk on the computer instead of activities that would actually get me out of this funk. So, if you see me anytime soon, shake me a little and tell me to buck up - it's almost over. In a year and a half I will have scraped together enough credits for two degrees. And if I quit now . . . it just gets harder and harder to come back.