1. Hello, friends! The semester is blessedly over. Through a combination of being so damn busy all the time, my ongoing physical health issues, and the resulting mental health issues from the latter, I managed to be in a position where I was grading up to literally the last second before grades were due.
I gave a final on the 9th; grades were due on the 11th. I was still completing tasks for Senate Chair and tasks for this conference I'm coordinating while doing all this. I had to get up at 5:00 on the 11th and grade for 7 hour straight so that I could turn in grades with literally three minutes to spare. Then I had an international Zoom meeting. Following that, I jumped in the tub long enough to scrape the horror off my body and drove for an hour to our main campus for graduation (where we graduated our first cohort of doctoral students OMG so exciting!!!!) and got home at 7:00.
Then I spent the next day writing my conference paper, and I've spent every day since then writing the new class I'm teaching that goes live on the 24th and doing conference admin. Did you know you have to individually enter each email address into Teams and cannot cut and paste as a block? *tears out hair*
I went shopping with a friend on Mother's Day and had to bail after a couple of hours because I felt wretched. Frankly, I still feel wretched.
Something has to change for next year. This spring was miserable. I was so depressed and unmotivated because I felt awful and tired that I procrastinated and that made everything so much worse. Never again. I have to stay on top of things because letting myself get behind quickly becomes unbearable.
/whining
2. I got cards from![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
elfin and misbegotten. <3 <3
3. I have lots of exciting professional things coming up: this weekend is the conference of the organization I'm the president of. My presentation is on some ideas for combating teacher burnout. I think my summer class is going to be good; it's a junior seminar on poetry. It has to be American and British lit; I'm starting with 19th century and going to the present and looking at poetry through an ecocritical lens. I'm giving a paper at the Victorian Popular Fiction Association's conference in July on Ouida's use of birds in her novels and non-fiction essays. I've got a book review of Ungrading coming out soon. I've got a graduate class in teaching college English to write for fall deployment (super excited about teaching this!). And come July, I get to change all my stuff to Professor. Whooooo!
4. I've read a bunch of cool stuff recently. I shall post about it forthwith.
I gave a final on the 9th; grades were due on the 11th. I was still completing tasks for Senate Chair and tasks for this conference I'm coordinating while doing all this. I had to get up at 5:00 on the 11th and grade for 7 hour straight so that I could turn in grades with literally three minutes to spare. Then I had an international Zoom meeting. Following that, I jumped in the tub long enough to scrape the horror off my body and drove for an hour to our main campus for graduation (where we graduated our first cohort of doctoral students OMG so exciting!!!!) and got home at 7:00.
Then I spent the next day writing my conference paper, and I've spent every day since then writing the new class I'm teaching that goes live on the 24th and doing conference admin. Did you know you have to individually enter each email address into Teams and cannot cut and paste as a block? *tears out hair*
I went shopping with a friend on Mother's Day and had to bail after a couple of hours because I felt wretched. Frankly, I still feel wretched.
Something has to change for next year. This spring was miserable. I was so depressed and unmotivated because I felt awful and tired that I procrastinated and that made everything so much worse. Never again. I have to stay on top of things because letting myself get behind quickly becomes unbearable.
/whining
2. I got cards from
elfin and misbegotten. <3 <33. I have lots of exciting professional things coming up: this weekend is the conference of the organization I'm the president of. My presentation is on some ideas for combating teacher burnout. I think my summer class is going to be good; it's a junior seminar on poetry. It has to be American and British lit; I'm starting with 19th century and going to the present and looking at poetry through an ecocritical lens. I'm giving a paper at the Victorian Popular Fiction Association's conference in July on Ouida's use of birds in her novels and non-fiction essays. I've got a book review of Ungrading coming out soon. I've got a graduate class in teaching college English to write for fall deployment (super excited about teaching this!). And come July, I get to change all my stuff to Professor. Whooooo!
4. I've read a bunch of cool stuff recently. I shall post about it forthwith.
