I Know Why the Grad Student Sleeps
Yeah. The title up there means nothing, at least not in relation to this post. Heh.
I just now turned in the midterm thingy, and according to my schedule, am going to watch House episodes until dark.
[sounds of heavenly choir descend into sreams of dying] GLITCH [eyes widen in horror]
There's a sign. The apt office is closed today. My House is inside that office. While I *have* entered an apt building at night and without invitation before (hello my apt-hunting-helper of yester semester), the situation was entirely different than this one, and there was nothing to gain but an appreciation for the townhouses off Slide. This time would be all kinds of illegal.
So, my reward is not to be found. Instead, I'll spend the night grading as I would have on Friday. Get done early and all that. Really earn a few episodes of House. I'm not grumpy enough to be a danger to students, and there are only a handful of hugely long and utterly wrong-headed preliminary essays to be graded yet. I can suffer through them.
Tomorrow, early in the morning, I have a student meeting (at least, he never said he *wouldn't* be there, and my email stipulated that that was the signal for "yes, I'll be there"). Before that meeting, I have to deliver paperwork to the Grad School. After the meeting, I have to sit in on a technology committee meeting. After that, I get to decide.
A) begin making up for work missed this week and go home exhausted at 5
B) attend a third meeting held for "professional development" reasons, *then* go make up for work missed this week, and go home *more* exhausted at 5 having made up *fewer* hours
I'm really hoping for A, but I have to go to three of these PD meetings, and a lot of them are held when I'm not available. So I'd hate to [insert cliched phrase here] and not make all three. I know that, logically, I'll end up doing B. Curses. I'm really, REALLY earning that Housefest.
So, I'm off. One more push tonight, and I can crawl away.
Love and Peace (and hey, exhaustion *does* relate to the title!)
I just now turned in the midterm thingy, and according to my schedule, am going to watch House episodes until dark.
[sounds of heavenly choir descend into sreams of dying] GLITCH [eyes widen in horror]
There's a sign. The apt office is closed today. My House is inside that office. While I *have* entered an apt building at night and without invitation before (hello my apt-hunting-helper of yester semester), the situation was entirely different than this one, and there was nothing to gain but an appreciation for the townhouses off Slide. This time would be all kinds of illegal.
So, my reward is not to be found. Instead, I'll spend the night grading as I would have on Friday. Get done early and all that. Really earn a few episodes of House. I'm not grumpy enough to be a danger to students, and there are only a handful of hugely long and utterly wrong-headed preliminary essays to be graded yet. I can suffer through them.
Tomorrow, early in the morning, I have a student meeting (at least, he never said he *wouldn't* be there, and my email stipulated that that was the signal for "yes, I'll be there"). Before that meeting, I have to deliver paperwork to the Grad School. After the meeting, I have to sit in on a technology committee meeting. After that, I get to decide.
A) begin making up for work missed this week and go home exhausted at 5
B) attend a third meeting held for "professional development" reasons, *then* go make up for work missed this week, and go home *more* exhausted at 5 having made up *fewer* hours
I'm really hoping for A, but I have to go to three of these PD meetings, and a lot of them are held when I'm not available. So I'd hate to [insert cliched phrase here] and not make all three. I know that, logically, I'll end up doing B. Curses. I'm really, REALLY earning that Housefest.
So, I'm off. One more push tonight, and I can crawl away.
Love and Peace (and hey, exhaustion *does* relate to the title!)
posted by Rehkmira @ 18:06
1 Comments:
At Thursday, October 05, 2006 9:33:00 PM,
Unique and Misunderstood said…
Hey, miss you! Hope your life is going well, better than mine at least and that's not saying much, but anyway... We need to get together or something. Do you realise it's been like two and a half years? so way too long. Talk to you later. Love, Unique
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