Well, as if things weren't bad enough...and if I wasn't hating my current academic situation enough right now...I just found out that the very person I came here to study with is going to be on leave ALL NEXT YEAR. That means I really can't work with him. So, I'm screwed. I need to have at least two people on my master's committee. I can probably ask SN, who does a lot of work in marriage - but BW is the one who particularly does family, and his emphasis is mostly on fatherhood, which is why I came here. This bit of news piles more dung on my huge heap of regret and growing sense that I should've gone to Chicago. I guess I can wait and see who they hire, but the way the politics are stacked in the department, I doubt they'll be hiring anymore quantitative faculty. So, in addition to BW's absence flushing my master's down the toilet, it means I probably can't do a directed reading with him in the fall either. That's not a huge deal, b/c I can probably do that with SN...but I was hoping to quit relying on him so much. I'm so frustrated right now. I guess I just have to ignore all of this and focus on finishing this semester before I start freaking out about next year. But, I'm really not happy and now my discontent in being here multiplies.