Less than a week to candidacy...

So its less than a week until my candidacy exam, and I am presently pulling my hair out (and all those proverbial phrases) trying to get ready for this darned thing.  Frankly it is such a crazy process.  Sometimes I think that everything is going to work out fine--I'll do great, then there are other times where I think I might as well start packing it in because I am making myself nutso for nothing.

All this week I have been waking up a 5 am to get to school by 7 am to start my day.  There is just something about the morning that is so much more productive than the evening hours.  I frankly have a hard time making myself accomplish anything significant after the 7 o'clock or 8 o'clock hour so the earlier the better for me I guess.  But anyway this has made me something of a walking (and sometimes talking) zombie this week, I can't sustain this lifestyle too much longer (good thing this exam is less than a week off) without adjusting my "going to bed schedule."  The darndest thing is Texas Rangers Baseball makes that a little more difficult...but that is a topic for another blog post.

The last couple days have been hardcore presentation shaping and writing days.  At this stage the organization is a bit of mess...the content is there...the content is in my head (more or less)...but everything isn't messing into a coherent story.  This weekend will be one of hunkering down and practicing, tweaking, practicing, tweaking, all coupled with studying/preparation.

Until May 6, its all up to the Rangers and inspirational/semi-motivational music like this to get me through:

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There is so much more to delve into about candidacy and everything surrounding it that perhaps will be tackled at a time soon to come...