The Circuit Is Nearly Complete

In precisely 12 hours, I will be in my master's examination. The revisions have gone spendidly, and I feel as prepared as I could posisbly be. The stress now is all bureaucratic--I was left off the spring graduation list and there may be a problem with the constitution of my examining committee. All I can do right now, though, is calm myself so that I can have productive conversations tomorrow. Only after that will I be able to attempt to navigate the bureaucratic channels once more. As the litany goes: I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer; fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me, and when the fear has gone, I will turn the inner eye to see its path, but there will be nothing. Only I shall remain. But now, I'm gonna go get a beer.