I Need to Vent
I just need to get it out here.... and then it will help me to just deal with the day better:
- I am annoyed that I still have virtually no voice. I hardly uttered a word yesterday (luckily I had an exam in one class, and told folks in lab what they needed to do but that for the rest of the class I told them I was going to be quiet, and in my seminar, I told the kids I was not going to talk a lot (and I did not).
- I am not looking forward to BIG VOICING today in the big lecture hall again. Tuesday and Thursday are the days I do these BIG VOICE classes. One of the three has an exam, so that is a blessing, but the other two I have somehow get it done.
- I am sad about my laryngitis AND about afternoon U commitments that keep me from going (albeit late) to the Retiree's Cigar Group. It is something I so look forward to doing.
- I am sick of Winter. It snowed a bit this morning. Yes, it was not much.... but it helped my mood to further plummet.
- Part of what is going on is that it is that "crunch period" of being both the approaching end of the semester, and the approaching end of the traditional academic year. I do continue to work in the Spring and Summer semesters of course, but in terms of TRADITIONAL school year efforts this May is the TRADITIONAL end of a "normal" academic year (officially in terms of money it is June 30th, but in terms of courses, it is May 10th..... the next semesters (Spring & Summer are "catch up" or "get ahead" semesters for the undergraduates students and there are only perhaps ~10% of the number of courses that occur in the Fall and Winter). And, in this "crunch period" every manner of damn presentation event, public speaking events, Honors Program events, etc all coalesce into the same three week period which is happening now. I have four of those items occupying my evenings this week and next week already scheduled.... and I am dead tired already, and cannot speak.
There. I crabbed about all the things making it hard for me at the moment. Now, hopefully I can let them go and just turn into a robot today, and get the sh*t done. I have enough crap to do for three people.... it is damn hard for one one lone, old, sick-feeling, crabby me.
PipeTobacco
8 Comments:
Looking for something positive, Professor, you're just one month away from a happy break from the "crunch" period. Just one more month, and you'll then have many weeks of unobstructed attendance at the Retiree's Cigar Group, and of not having to bellow at your students for several hours twice-per-week. And by then it should be warmer, too. As unpleasant as the next month may at times be, you can for sure "robot" your way through it and become your normal expressive self after May 10. You've got this, Professor!
Sir. Would it be possible to have a PA system of some sort installed so you (and possibly others) would be relieved of having to use their Big Voice?
About 4 hard weeks to go. Hang in there.
BTW we are watching your suggested Portraits competition. We'll probably do landscape next.
How annoying not to have a voice when you need it! It seems like a cascade of frustrating things and those can destroy the mood. Hope your voice improves soon!
It is so horrid having to keep going when you're feeling rotten. Hope everything is brighter in your world soon.
Crab AWAY, Professor. You have way too much on your plate more often than not. I'd be venting too.
Fear not, the good weather is almost here. I'm firmly convinced that exposure to the sun is essential for a person's emotional well being as well as powering the immune system.
It's also time to start thinking about the joy you'll have planting a garden and caring for it.
Ain't I a ray of sunshine.
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