My yearly goal is to make it up the Catalina highway to Windy Point, on my bicycle, on or before my birthday.

This attempt will take place sometime between now and the end of the semester.

If I succeed I will show up in class the following Monday with a sense of relief and things will probably go reasonably well for the rest of the semester.

If I don't succeed then I will feel like a complete failure, will sink into a deep depression, and it is hard to say what might happen.