It’s been nearly a month since I posted my last book progress update. When I posted the last update the summer still seemed to stretch ahead of me, yet now it’s the middle of July with the beginning of the fall semester feeling imminent. What’s worse, I don’t think I’ll be able to hit my goal of having the first draft completed by the end of the summer.

There are a few reasons for this. First is my precalc class, which has met for three hours a night, three nights a week, since the beginning of June. I go to the lectures the same days that I work an eight hour day so by the time I get home at