I'm with Woodbutcher on this one. The time constraint worries me. I've never built a SE, but I've built three other planes, all relatively easy kits, and they all took a LOT longer than I planned for. Here's what happens (to me at least). I start thinking I'm just going to throw it together. You know, speed is the thing. Don't want to get too involved, since it might crash.

Then, as I build, I realize if I just take a LITTLE more time, it's going to be so much nicer. Wouldn't it be a good idea to put a little fiberglass on that hatch cover? How much sanding on the leading edge is enough? What about fuel proofing the fuel tank compartment? Then you get to covering. You know that a simple color scheme would be much quicker, but the plane starts to look SO nice, and it won't take much longer to cut lettering out of Monokote, or do that American Flag scheme you saw on RCU. Wouldn't some checkerboard look nice on the rudder? You know, you've already spent so much time on it, what's another couple of evenings? Then, you can't figure something out, and you post it on RCU, and it takes a week to decide between all the conflicting opinions. Anyway, before you know it, you've eaten up a LOT of evenings, and spent a lot of time making trips to the LHS.

Kit's are great winter projects. You can spend as many leisurely evenings as you like on them.