Days remaining if I start my three-week qualifying exam period
on Nov. 22: 91.
Days remaining if I start my three-week qualifying exam period on Jan. 15: 145.
Number of pieces in the three exam lists: 169
Number left to read: 70 (44 books, 26 articles)
Number left to annotate: Anybody’s guess. Some integer between 70 and 134.
As you can see, I ran the numbers again this evening. It’s not
hopeless by any means, given that I can still meet the Nov. option if I have a
solid few weeks. The burr in my sock is that while I’m reading and
annotating individual pieces, the patterns arching across the readings are
perhaps best compared to a serving of spaghetti.
Dropped from a high-flying hot air balloon.
Into a turbulent ocean.
Where it’s being nibbled by predatory sea creatures.
You get my drift. Thing is, while time is short enough
for reading, I also have to form possible responses, give the new stuff a shape
beyond a set of finely tuned but scattered notes. So while reading is
going fairly well, the part where it sinks in such that I can do intelligible
justice to it in a few months: a disconcerting lack.
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