Are you going along with your school schedule okay, doing your work, etc.? (In other words, was it "worth" cutting back for, does that option work?)

I don't think of "impulsive" as being as well thought out as your counting the days/hours you haven't had to call him? Actually, I think of it as kind of the opposite as being about actively working with/trying to curb impulses? It makes me think a bit of a kid in a candy/toy store :-) being told to look but not touch and their trying to understand that and do it successfully. Just because things seem the exact "opposite" of ways we think of ourselves normally behaving, doesn't mean there's a dichotomy set up like it appears? Other things could be happening we're not even aware of, probably "good" if we're not yet aware of them :-)