I'm finally at a point where I'm not so busy - my national merit stuff is done, my college essay is mostly done, and I only have one standardized test left which I'm not too worried about. It will pick up in about a week when I have to write a few supplements (including essays x_x) but once I send my application, I'm (finally) free to go. We can do Dip now though...well, once we get another player.
random: don't know if you think this is a good or terrible idea, but I really want to clear the air with the D_A situation. Obviously it's still something people think about and I think that a simple presentation of the facts of what happened and nothing more would be beneficial. Either way, CBC as a whole needs to have a common understanding about it and then move on because 1) D_A will be back in less than two months and 2) this constant melancholy about it is not good and is fueling a myth that everything was just a beautiful garden of petals and roses and then his ban knocked us off a cliff...the constant pessimism is frankly unbearable and it's been the main reason that I've flat-out avoided PC over the past few months. I'm busy of course, but PC is supposed to relieve stress, not add onto it. The whole "if D_A comes back everything will be better" is false hope and if anything is ever going to get done we need to stop feeling sorry for ourselves (and him), move on, and actually make some progress. ugh.