I am so freaking stressed that I have reached that stage where I’m too paralyzed to do any of the thousand things that are on my range of to-do lists. How is it possible that I am so busy this fall? In theory I should not be this busy, and yet somehow, here I am.
So, in the next 3 hours, I need to:
1. Grade papers.
2. Prep for meeting I’m running tomorrow.
3. Get myself ready to go to campus.
Then, I’ll have 3 hours at school to grade more things, announcements to post on Bb to my classes, emails to respond to, and just basic organizational things. And then I need to prep for my seminar, and then go teach it.
All of the above is manageable. I can do all of those things. I wish I could go back to bed.
Reassigned Time 2.0 
So, so, so with you on this. I always feel like things are under control going into the semester, feel pretty good for the first four or five weeks, start to feel a little behind weeks six, seven and eight and then feel like I literally fall in a hole and am buried with things to do in weeks nine and beyond, only to emerge tattered and barely standing a week after the semester ends (which for me is Christmas this year)…sigh…
Um, don’t you have off for Veteran’s Day?
Nope, no Veteran’s Day holiday for us – they basically take Veteran’s Day and Columbus Day to use for Fall Break at the halfway point so we get 4 days together and Monday classes aren’t as screwed with missed classes.
The good news is that I’m totally caught up with grading in my grad class, I’m 90% caught up with grading in my comp class, and I *should* be caught up with grading in my upper-level lit class tonight. The only class that is a hot mess (still) is the intro to the major course, but I’m showing a movie in there (A THEORY MOVIE!) this week, so I have high hopes about my ability to get my shit together in there, too. Apparently accountablogging worked for me this time!
I feel your pain. I’m on three promotion committees, a search committee, and writing a tenure letter for another campus. Then there are two book reviews. . . I want a summer vacation.