Doc John was sooooooooo right when he said we lose some organizational skills as we age....I sure have. I used to be able to go to a rodeo, photograph, drive 1200 miles home, develop the film, print, write an essay about that rodeo and have it all done the third day back....if you held a gun to my head now, i couldn't do it. we just naturally lose some speed and detail stuff as we grow more mature. i sorta see you waffling back and forth between time for you and time for school. would it hurt if you took a semester off? you might discover some things about yourself that would surprise you. and i have another idea for you.....ask your ob-gyn to do the bloodwork that will tell you if you're in peri-menopause. i know you're just 35 and you plan to have children but peri-menopause is where i first noticed myself "slipping" on my organization skills. if you are in peri-meno, you can sit down and plan the next five years and know what your deadlines are. if you're not, great!research is now showing that peri can start in our thirties. AND please take some time for yourself and your husband...okay?? this is from one ole chick to a young one!! xoxox pat p.s. if you have a male physician, he might pooh-pooh the idea of the test, but if you want it done, press for it......