"i've made a huge mistake"

If you're familiar with the show "Arrested Development", then you'll know this quote.

Anyway, it's true, I've made a huge mistake. I dropped a class thinking I can get into another class, which, sadly, did not happen. So I'm stuck with 11 units. One unit short of qualifying me as a full-time student. I am an idiot. I was looking at all the one unit classes that are available, and either they do not fit my schedule, or I'm just not interested in them. There is no way I'm enduring three hours of yoga.

So, my brother is a bit disappointed, which means my parents will be very disappointed, which means, this will not be a good semestre for the Prufrock. It's only one unit...God, help me.

I can rationalize it:
--I can make up for it next semestre by taking 19 units--which would undoubtedly kill me, but who cares, I'll have 30 units total for this sophomore year assuming I pass all my classes.
--I am ahead anyway. I have already earned 6 units before even stepping on this campus by passing my AP English exams and therefore relinquishing the need to take English 114 and 214.
--I am working on a huge project. I am editing all the film from the fam's trip to Europe in 2002, and it will be a beautiful work of art that will take (and is already taking) an obscene amount of my time because editing is meticulous work.
--It's only one semestre.

I don't want my parents to think I'm a slacker, or that this is only the beginning of some sort of downfall, because I'm not, and it's not. It was just poor decision-making on my part. I hope that they forgive me. I hope that they know that it pains me to make such a stupid mistake. I just don't want them to be disappointed in me.

My prayers go out to all those who have been devastated by hurricane Katrina. Keep these people in your prayers.