Talking with my fiancee is illuminating, sometimes:

Her: "Lately it just feels like I've been making one huge, continuous mistake."

Me: "Yeah... That never goes away, you know. I'm surprised you aren't used to it by now."

Her: "This just started maybe a week ago."

Me: "Oh."

Beat.

"Ohhhhhhhhhh."

Got a lot of shit to sort out in my head these days, and not just academically. Finally went down and talked to the head advisor for my department and told him about how things have been going. The depression, my lack of motivation, the fact that I haven't been to class in something like three weeks (not counting tests, etc)... You know, all the ( Read more... )