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 you might detect a sense of relief when I show up in class the following Tuesday and things will probably go reasonably well for the rest of the semester.

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