Just past the halfway point, actually – six and a half weeks gone, five and a half left. I’ve talked to people about recommendation letters, I’ve cleared much of my schedule for March, I’ve been writing (almost) every day.

I’ve had some other stuff going on both at work and in the hobbies-and-social sphere. I have been reading in the evenings, but not as much as I’d like, and my goofing off on the internet keeping-alert activities on long quiet stretches at the reference desk have been pretty drastically curtailed. Instead of doing the JavaScript class and reading e-books, I’ve been running reports and writing procedure and doing catalogue cleanup in preparation for – and then fighting fires in the aftermath of – our somewhat difficult ILS migration last week. That’s winding down, and everybody’s settling in, although there will be another learning curve in a week or so when our new session management software gets set up, and then another after that when our new union catalog’s new OPAC interface arrives. Yeah, it’s being that kind of month.

The actual administrivia of grad school applications is all hurry-up-and-wait right now. Within the next week or two my plan is to put together a detailed timeline and start assembling paperwork. And try to get back to the JS class.