a day consumed by anxiety

Work is reasonably easy, and so I can by and large do it and work it as a pleasant anaesthetic, but today I have lost a whole day to worry and the obsessive checking of the internet. I applied to, in alphabetical order:

• Berkeley
• Chicago
• Columbia
• Duke
• Harvard
• JHU
• Michigan
• NYU
• Penn
• Rutgers
• Stanford
• UCLA
• UVa
• Washington University STL
• Yale
  

As I said, I have been accepted to Duke. I haven't heard back from the other fourteen places. Last year I applied to Columbia, Harvard, Yale, Berkeley, Stanford, NYU and Princeton. Obviously, that didn't go especially well. I can't keep my eyes open and I keep falling asleep on the bus, which is how my wallet was stolen last December, and I'm just sick with nerves.