Do you get the feeling that if you weren't this anxious that you wouldn't be half as good of a teacher as you are?

I wonder if that kind of anxiety is necessary. I used to believe that it was. Now I think that people might be good at what they do regardless of their worries about it.

Yeah, I'm distracting myself from a fairly interesting thesis proposal concerning law enforcement and the Mexican drug cartels (and already I have used the term inelastic market - damnit)