I may be somewhat quieter for a while.

CRAP! THE PHYSICS GRE!! I need to sign up for that! I totally forgot!

Good luck, man.

 

I'm sure you will do just great this semester. We will keep your seat warm for ya.

 

Good luck with the GRE: I don't envy you!

 

My sympathy and perhaps, it's redundant, but have you considered to overcome that writers block by structuring your thoughts?

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/materials/student/ac_paper/write.shtml [Broken]

Success

 

Good luck! Though, you won't need it; I'm confident you'll do well.

I second Andre's advice here. A common problem we see among students who have to write something (including grad students starting on their dissertations) is they spend an inordinate amount of time staring at a blank sheet of paper trying to write a perfect first sentence. You're going to edit and revise many times before you have a final version, so don't worry about the details on the first go around. Just sit down and write an outline of what you want to include, then start filling in details for the outline points, then start joining them into sentences, and THEN go through and polish the sentences to make them sound nice. This will also keep you from wasting a lot of time during the editing and revising to shuffle things into a logical order.

 

G01: My thoughts are with you. I hope it will go well. And remember, there are always more ways than one to be an overachiever. :) I hope that thought will give you comfort regardless of the outcome.