I graded 15 research papers today, and I feel like my head has been through the pea sheller (If you live somewhere where you don't have pea shellers, insert your own bad analogy here).
I've got to find a way to step it up. I've only just begun. Lot's more where that came from. And so forth...
I've also got to find a way to keep my sanity for the next few weeks, and I'm assuming most people who read this blog are feeling the same way right about now.
I don't have an answer, but my strategy so far is actually not much different than it was when I was the one turning in the research papers this time of year.
Eat lots of sugar. Drink lots of coffee. Let everything good and good for you in life fall by the wayside as you pretend someone else has been leaving the empty Funyun bags in your office trash can. Forget to go to committee meetings. Sign things only when people follow you to the bathroom waving them in your face. Let the mail pile up for days without looking at it (but obsessively check email). Skip lunch, but close the door and act like you went to lunch. Explain to the cats that what happens in the litter box stays in the litter box. Spend amazing amounts of time procrastinating by thinking about how much has to be done. Eat lots of sugar. Drink lots of coffee.
Did I miss anything?
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Oh, I so feel your pain! All hail the gods of caffine and chocolate and mountain dew..... I won't explain, but then I'm sure I don't have to......
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