Today it hit me that it is the beginning of June! Okay, this seems glaringly obvious, and yet somehow the enormity of it escaped me. Or rather, I was in a state of utterly blissful denial. Because you see, in the next three months (i.e. the period between the beginning of June and the beginning of September) I have to complete the following: · 1 x exam on 17 June (the bane of all the psychology masters’ students existence) · 1x assessment feedback (from the first assessment I did over the last quarter) · 1x assessment (the second assessment we are due to start in July) · 1x assessment report (on the second assessment we are doing) · 1x adjustment and maladjustment paper (the topic and due date have yet to be set) · 1x community psychology paper and presentation (which thankfully will be over and done with on the 25th) · 1x case conceptualization and presentation (at least, I sincerely hope it is only one and not two!) · 6x in-depth face-to-face interviews (to be done by end of next week – the big interviews will be done on Friday this week, Hooray!) · 6x transcriptions of said interviews (to be done by the end of next week – the big ones to be transcribed by Sunday and no later) · 30x scoring of developmental assessment tests (to be done by the end of next week) · 1x Data analysis chapter (chapter 5 of my research dissertation, consisting of both quantitative and qualitative analysis – thank goodness for the market research days!) · 1x Literature review (chapter 3 of my research dissertation – thankfully I have a really good start on this and have already started tackling this) · 1x Discussion chapter (chapter 6 of my research dissertation) · 1x Conclusions chapter (chapter 7 of my research dissertation) Then, I also have internship interviews that literally pepper my calendar for the month of June. I also have to attend two Saturday workshops of assessments this month. There are a number of social events coming up, such as Gabi’s christening and my course co-ordinators final, final party (a long story). And then there is Father’s Day. And my brother and my mother celebrate their birthdays in June, which means I need to take some time out to plan something for both of them. July and August are hectic birthday months, and all of people who are super-important to me, so plans will have to be made (even if it is only making a plan for a cup of celebratory coffee and a slice of cake). Also this month brings my two-year anniversary, something which I am so celebrating - I am extremely blessed with David. Now that I have made this list (which I should point out consists only of the work that is due for marks – I have not counted any of the mountains of readings we have to complete or the transcribing of our therapy sessions, etc), I am starting to freak out a little bit... Maybe even more than a little bit... Seriously, denial (and all of the other wonderful defense mechanisms) are fantastic – Freud was so right! | 
