Time

That frantic specter of Time is creeping up behind me again. As with the end of every semester, the tasks we put off until the end are coming due. Of course this semester I have the added pressure of having my son's birth scheduled for any time between now and the first week of June. I feel like I should be wearing a street sign saying "The end is near!" like a crazed doom sayer. At times like this, its hard to make sure that the quality of the work doesn't suffer due to the crunch in time. Like the real world, it seems like testing and checking to make sure everything is correct takes a back seat and gets the most time chopped from it once the deadline is only a few strides away. Still, as the projects are important, it is worth losing a little sleep to send everything through the test battery, or to proofread it one more time. After all, if you've been doing so well all semester, you'd hate to blow it at the end.