Wow. I did it. How did that happen?

Against all my expectations, the C.K. McClatchy Newspaper, The
Prospector, will have Issue 1 delivered tomorrow. And it looks
great.

Also, I think I passed my Irish Lit class; the jury is still out but I got
decent--not good, but decent--grades on both. I've decided, though, to take
next semester off. I'm drowning under my extra-heavy workload AND grad
school, and while I think I could do one class per semester in future, as
one of my professors advised me to do, I simply have too much on my plate
with an extra-duty class this year, and it's begun to affect my teaching in
a negative way. So I'm taking Spring 2011 off, and I'll go back in Fall
2011, with no extra-duty classes.

Also, this will allow Elli and I to recover from our long sojourn in
barely-enough-money-to-survive land.