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May 06, 2008
Still Here
It feels like I've lived a week in the past few days. Sunday was relaxing but busy--all stuff I wanted to do, mind you. I took the entire weekend off from the teaching thing. Didn't even check my email until yesterday morning.
Yesterday, on the other hand, was crazy. The day began with a 7:30am final and ended when I got home sometime around 6:30. I got a bunch of grading done, fit in a brunch/discussion about this semester and next semester with my teaching partner, actually proctored/participated in two finals and then collapsed. I wanted to do something creative and interesting with my evening, as a break from the school stuff, but I was too tired to think of anything. So I read. And talked to my brother on the phone for about an hour because he's in the area on a shoot. Hopefully I'll get to see him this evening.
Today is completely up to me. I have no commitments to anyone, no solid ones, anyway. I do have about 30 final exams to grade and a handful of papers that got turned in on Friday. And that's it. I also need to do some shopping and make reservations for a trip to the coast this weekend, I leave Thursday for three glorious days of being both not here and at the ocean. No responsibilities, no schedule. I'm hoping that will get me set up nicely to come home and start doing the huge amount of stuff I need to do this summer. Because, wow, do I have a lot to do before classes start again in the fall and my free time goes away.
I was actually thinking about not going because the preparation seems like so much work. I need to rent a car because ours will most likely be in the shop and it's a long drive and I'm not sure how I feel about going all that way alone to be alone, etc., and mostly because the weather on the coast is looking not so happy. Rainy and chilly. And then I looked at the forecast for here, and realized that it will actually be slightly nicer on the coast this weekend. Warmer by 5-10 degrees. So I'll be leaving first thing Thursday morning.
And now I'm off. Walking to campus because the weather is gorgeous and my schedule is open and I can. Grading, making photocopies and doing some more grading. Hopefully I'll be able to get all the stuff that needs doing done by mid-afternoon or so. I really don't want to spend the rest of my life grading, and I'm not sure I have the patience to do much more of it, really. Though the finals had several questions that involved making art and then examining/explaining the impulse behind it, so they should be fun to grade rather than work. I'd like to get it all done before I leave on Thursday, even though grades aren't due until a week from today. I just want it out of the way so I'm not thinking about it the whole time I'm gone. The whole point of the trip, after all, is to get away and focus on taking care of me and to maybe wash the sticky residue from the semester off in the surf.
Posted by sally at May 6, 2008 09:51 AM
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