After I wrote yesterday's little cry for help, I had a talk with one of my professors. He suggested that I take an 'incomplete' grade in one of the courses, which will give me a year to complete the work I've done so far. I'll do the exams in the other courses, and return in January to start the Spring semester.

If you spoke to me yesterday, I would have told you that I was already clearing out my room in preparation for returning home. What changed? I'm entirely sure; I suppose that I really want to be sure whether this is really what I want do, and I need to give it a bit more time before I give it up. That, and I would really like to see out a year in this country, at the very least. So, panic (mostly) over. Mostly.

My computer decided that it wasn't happy about the prospect of travelling back across the Atlantic, and promptly fried the second hard drive. Which just happens to contain all my Linux programs. Nice. Thankfully, all my data is on the other hard drive...