Wizard needs sleep, badly!
Got home from church and slept for three hours today despite having had a good night's sleep, so now I'm struggling to pry myself out of that strange, post-nap lethargy. I think I need to play some DDR. Badly.
The grad student conference that I was a major part of organizing ended yesterday. It went very well; the committee really came together in the end and worked *hard* to make sure that everything ran smoothly. The keynote was awesome, my paper on BtVS and passing went over well, and we didn't run into any major snafus.
Still, I'm exhausted. And very frustrated with the faculty for not making more of a point to attend. And overwhelmed with the amount of work that still has to be done in the next 3 weeks. To wit:
- My project for Tech Fellows, a supplementary website to the Intro to Old English class - is due on Friday. Structurally, it exists and I'm pleased with it. Content-wise, though, it's the Gobi Desert. Time to drink mass quantities of DDP and get THAT shit going. ;)
- The English 100 students' website is also due on Friday, at the Full Staff Meeting(tm). Fortunately, that just needs minor changes. Also fortunately, working on that project has made the directors of the program offer me work over the summer, which *rocks*. Not many hours, but I can't afford to take on too much work anyway, due psycho!Latin class. I have very much been website girl this semester, and it's paying off. Woot.
- Kalamazoo paper. To be given on May 6. It exists, but needs somewhat substantial revisions.
- Seminar paper for my Old English class. I have an idea, but still need to do a helluvalot more reading before I can start in on it. And when will *that* happen? Beats me.
- Amorphous "Old Norse Final Exam." Kirsten still hasn't told us what this will be. Uh oh.
- Getting my English 100 students through the experience of the first full-fledged research paper. They are all so worried, the poor little ducklings. It'd be cute, if I the energy to think of it that way.
So yeah, I'm pretty fucked. These next few weeks will be interesting, to say the least, and I apologize in advance if you try to talk me on IM and all that happens is that I wig out at you and express dire prostestations of doom 'n' gloom. I'm just not finding the fun so much, these days. ;) Maybe I should take a different tack, and consciously embrace my inner Faith in order to get through this. Well, minus the homicide.
The grad student conference that I was a major part of organizing ended yesterday. It went very well; the committee really came together in the end and worked *hard* to make sure that everything ran smoothly. The keynote was awesome, my paper on BtVS and passing went over well, and we didn't run into any major snafus.
Still, I'm exhausted. And very frustrated with the faculty for not making more of a point to attend. And overwhelmed with the amount of work that still has to be done in the next 3 weeks. To wit:
- My project for Tech Fellows, a supplementary website to the Intro to Old English class - is due on Friday. Structurally, it exists and I'm pleased with it. Content-wise, though, it's the Gobi Desert. Time to drink mass quantities of DDP and get THAT shit going. ;)
- The English 100 students' website is also due on Friday, at the Full Staff Meeting(tm). Fortunately, that just needs minor changes. Also fortunately, working on that project has made the directors of the program offer me work over the summer, which *rocks*. Not many hours, but I can't afford to take on too much work anyway, due psycho!Latin class. I have very much been website girl this semester, and it's paying off. Woot.
- Kalamazoo paper. To be given on May 6. It exists, but needs somewhat substantial revisions.
- Seminar paper for my Old English class. I have an idea, but still need to do a helluvalot more reading before I can start in on it. And when will *that* happen? Beats me.
- Amorphous "Old Norse Final Exam." Kirsten still hasn't told us what this will be. Uh oh.
- Getting my English 100 students through the experience of the first full-fledged research paper. They are all so worried, the poor little ducklings. It'd be cute, if I the energy to think of it that way.
So yeah, I'm pretty fucked. These next few weeks will be interesting, to say the least, and I apologize in advance if you try to talk me on IM and all that happens is that I wig out at you and express dire prostestations of doom 'n' gloom. I'm just not finding the fun so much, these days. ;) Maybe I should take a different tack, and consciously embrace my inner Faith in order to get through this. Well, minus the homicide.