At the beginning of the fall term, I could see clear to the other side of it with no apparent break from proposal/manuscript/abstract/committee deadlines, travel, and other time-consuming professional activities. In a rare week, I would 'only' have my usual research and teaching and advising and meetings and so on.
Now that I am deep into the fall term, time has been expanding and contracting. I veer between thinking "How am I ever going to get all this done in two days?" and "I have two whole days to get this done" and then back to "How am I going to get all this done?". Never mind 2007, this past September seems like a very long time ago.
One day this week, I briefly considered grading papers while walking across campus, but then decided that, although grading while walking is probably safer than driving while texting, grade-walking would greatly increase my chance of being hit by a bicycle.
So far, things are getting done (with lots of help from excellent colleagues), but the biggest deadlines are still ahead, I still have some travel (some at a very inconvenient time), and looming committee work will soon dominate my existence far more than I expected.
As a result, blog posts will be short or long depending on whether I am crazy-busy or procrastinating.
Glad to know I'm not the only one.. I thought if I made it through October, I could make it to the end of the semester.. November has sucked far more..
ReplyDeleteMaybe if I just make it to Thanksgiving it will all be ok :)
Good to read that even the best of us are hit by the 'crazy-busy or procrastinating' syndrome, I sometimes believe I am the only one suffering from it.
ReplyDeleteBtw, time-perceiving IS variable!
Great.I too feel like "I'm not the only one rotting in the office in the weekend".
ReplyDeleteI am now feeling jealous of people who have lots of free time (eg. friends who are housewives etc.).