I'm IN

I'm IN - into the Masters program, more significantly, into the SYSTEM. Thanks to the kind perseverance of the departmental office manager, I gained access yesterday to Blackboard.

Blackboard is a university's system of communication with its students. This guarded domain is only for the initiated and holds the keys to success. All the assignments are on Blackboard; all the changes in assignments are on Blackboard; all the explanations of how to fulfill each assignment are on Blackboard.

FINALLY I could enter this holy of holies...

...which resulted in shock at how far behind I was! (Is there some spirtual symblism here??)

I need to find someone in Chicago working in social justice for an interview. Would be great if I could do that this afternoon before class at 4. Gulp.

I have class tonight; for the next two weeks I am speaking in California; two days after returning, my mid-term paper is due - which is based on class lectures. Gulp. I'll attend two of them via Skype. Here's hoping there's grace if I can't get the paper done on time!

Feel like a just drank four cans of Red Bull! Engines are revved!! Yikes!