It's only the first

How is it only the first and yet I look at November and think I'm in trouble?


Part of it is the 6,000 pages of reading I need to do. Well, I exaggerate. There's 100 pages of Copyright law (knocked off a chapter at breakfast this morning); three articles for editing, plus a paragraph critique of each; and two sets of workshop materials for Adaptations which includes the source short stories, the treatments, and however many pages of scripts, plus half pages of feedback for each writer. That's just for this week.

I think what's really causing me stress though is the sound assignment that's due on Monday. We are supposed to use a very specific software. None of the labs that I have regular access to have that software. And it's good software so I just went out and bought it while I get the nice student 60% off student discount. However, once I installed it on my laptop I discovered that I needed to purchase an extra dongle so that I can install it on as many computers as I want, but only ever use one at a time. That burned a few days for it to get shipped here. But then it came yesterday and I launched it up and discovered I'm having sound playback issues. Right now my laptop generally will only pay sound if I have my headphones plugged in. Without the headphones it's looking for something that isn't there. I did a lot of reading on that yesterday morning and think I might have to find an Apple store to get it fixed. It's a physical issue I think. Sigh. But I figured, fine, I'll just plug my headphones in and get the editing done. But then the software doesn't make any sound no matter what. I can see it playing. If I export it that file plays fine off my desktop. But within the application I hear nothing. So now instead of doing the 1000 pages of reading I have above, I'm spending hours reading online forums trying to just get the stupid software to work, not even actually learning how to use it.

Oh, and more revisions to Ghost Tours (which I was expecting to be bothering me at this point, but it keeps getting better every time), the treatment and script for Enid's Wall (my adaptation), and a lot of research on what things cost for my Line Producing class are all big things due this month.

I'm in trouble.