Workload Watchers

This is not my comprehensive New Year’s Resolution post.  However, I had an idea today, that I think is going to be a crucial component of the resolutions that I’ll make for the coming year. See, I’ve been in a pickle when it comes to the way that my workload is distributed.  And I’ve been [...]

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In Which I Have Too Much to Do to Write a Coherent Single-Topic Post

Actually, that’s been the thing that’s been getting in the way of regular blogging for me this semester.  I’m going full throttle in so many different directions that when I sit down to write I don’t have it in me to write coherently, so then I don’t write here, and then I feel like too [...]

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Headaches

I woke up this morning with this song running through my head.  Clearly my subconscious was trying to tell me something, because I don’t remember the last time I actually listened to it.  But so yeah, this is pretty much how I’m feeling with six weeks of the semester done.  In a nutshell, I am [...]

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What a Difference a Weekend (and Some Fall-Like Weather) Makes

Good morning, darlings.  Well, you’ll be happy to hear that I spent the weekend regaining my perspective, I got some necessary work done (for teaching, for a forthcoming publication) but I didn’t spend my holiday weekend working (which in some ways may have been a mistake, but I needed to remember that my life is [...]

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Tired

I’m not tired for any particular reason.  It’s that the first week – the re-entry is hard.  I had a number of meetings this week; I met my classes for the first time; I handled trouble-shooting for my courses, and, at the end of it all, I’m tired.  Period. I went in to campus this [...]

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Two Days In….

Today was my first day of the semester in the classroom; yesterday was spent taking care of stuff for my online class and dealing with various emails.  All in all, I’m feeling fairly positive about things, but exhausted.  I should write for the next few hours but you know what?  Too tired.  Perhaps tomorrow morning; [...]

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Getting Back in the Swing of Things

So yesterday I woke up and rather than dawdling around the house I ventured off into the fog (which was quite thick, actually), grabbed some breakfast, and headed into the office.  Apparently the rest of my colleagues were busy enjoying the last weekend before the start of classes, and apparently they don’t have the problem [...]

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Why It’s Worth It to Do Irritating Things

So I’ve spent the morning working on my chapter, and I’m making good progress.  I’ve hit my “five solid pages by Thursday” goal, and I actually intend to write for a bit longer, hopefully getting to 7 pages, which will mean that I’m ahead of schedule.  When I say “five solid pages,” this doesn’t mean [...]

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Another Post about Updating Classes – Plus School Supplies!

Ok, so I lied.  I will not be doing 3 more posts about updating classes.  Instead, I’ll be doing just this one, because I have now dealt with the major issues in three of the four (and the 4th doesn’t actually have major things to update but rather details to take care of since this [...]

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What a Difference a Day Makes

I don’t know quite what was different about today than yesterday, but somehow, I woke up motivated and ready to work.  (Though, to be honest, unless I allow myself 3 hours of “easing into the day” time, I get nothing done, so while I woke up thinking, “hey, I’m going to get things done today!” [...]

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