RAUGH!

What's killing me is that I don't know if I can get this dissertation done by the end of October. If I knew that I could, I'd be happy. If I knew that it was impossible, that there was just no way, I could live with that; set a new deadline for late Novemeber/early December and be done with it.

But "it'll be really really hard and please let the data work out and the conversion problem solve itself and maybe just maybe I can pull this under the wire"? That's hard, because it admits the possibility of success with a fair likelihood of failure, and contemplating the fair likelihood of failure stresses me the hell out - but I refuse to give up on the possibility of success.

Right. Back to the new data set.