I should be finishing getting ready to go to class right now, but I’m not. I’m now starting to think that I should not take the second half of the med school class this term. As much asI enjoyed the experience last term, I’m not sure how much I’m getting out of it now. I’m still learning things, but I suspect that the 12 hours a week that the course requires would probably be better spent working on my own researching and writing. Right now, I’ve made very little progress since my stalemated attempt at a proposal defense in December and that needs to change. I need to really start moving forward with my work, especially since it has become clear in the past week that my own program isn’t going to make any effort support me in these last stages. And when you’re in completely dysfunctional program at a completely dysfunctional university, you have to resist the impulse to be completely dysfunctional yourself.