Middles are hard as well

All beginings are difficult as it says in the Talmud, but in there own way middles seem really hard also, in someways harder than beginnings, currently I find myself not lost in ocean of Talmud but lost in the forest of rabbinical school.  It now feels like I have been at this for a very long time.  And in some ways I have those days of sitting in my garden revising Hebrew like mad, before having meaningful conversations with my fellow incoming students seem a long long time ago. And indeed they were that was all happening in April and May 2010!, but it still feels as if I have a long way still to travel and I do. Two whole years.  It has taken so much to get to this point.  And the third year is not yet over.  It is almost over, but there is still much left to do.  So far I have done my Essays for Prophets, Liturgy, Piyyutim, Midrash (almost, I have a very good first draft but it still needs some work), Rabbinic literature intensive (well in hand but its horribly complex) then we reach the subjects which are less prepared and ready to go. Education interesting but I'm struggling, and Rambam which I still haven't really started yet.
So standing between me and the end of my third are: Whats left of classes, not many now. One presentation (on the 13th) I had a presentation yesterday as well.  Additionally I have some Jewish Care Norward placement visits.  Two full essays, one part essay and writing another.  Put that way it sounds like a lot.  However, it does feel as if I've turned out of the last corner of the lap and am on the home-straight even if there are two more years to go and 795 days.

Well I am teaching in a synagogue tomorrow and leader services at school and I have a lot to do before I can go to sleep so I had better get of this blog and go and do something.