A slow month

For weeks it felt like June would never end. Now, looking back, I'm glad I survived it without a nervous breakdown.

Sources of stress were plenty and petty: the uncertain status of my 4-week summer Japanese course, the oil leak in my car, the pending expiration of shakken (car registration) in October and driver's license in August, the nagging right wrist sprain that still hasn't gone away, the unfinished tax stuff, Simona freaking out, the suddenly heavy class load, the afterschool program for elementary kids, the pileup in my dish sink and laundry basket, the heat, the humidity, the inexplicable disappearance of my jump-shot, the plateau of swim training...

What I really needed is to simplify. So, I sorted out a few, but not all of the above things, and got on BitTorrent and downloaded Elder Scrolls Morrowind. And all I worry about now is whether or not my dark elf mage/thieve Chrizzt can survive the fire Atronach in the depths of the Vassir-Didanat ebony mine