mentally exhausted

I'm sitting in an un-air conditioned cafe in Chicago at the moment. A bit stuffy, but free wireless. And only on the other side of the block from my friend Darryn's, where Richard and I are staying for a few days while he does some work at the Field Museum and I take a "break" before school and work start up full-force for the Fall.

And I just emailed a finished paper off to one of my instructors. One of my incompletes is done! Woooooooooo!

Man, how relieving and how scary. I'm been hanging on to this thing for about 9 months now. It was really hard to send it off into the ether and finally snip off this particular thread that has been leeching so much mental energy away from me.

Now onto worrying about what kind of grade I'm going to get for it. And enjoying some free time in Chicago.