Winding down

I need to start winding down.  I've been so intense this past academic year, feeling the need to keep getting stuff done to keep from being overwhelmed.

As of yesterday my responsibilities should start to wind down.  I need to write final exams, give them and grade them, but that's just time, not a lot of effort.  I still have one more meeting of our curriculum committee to chair and a department retreat to plan and lead.  I still have to resolve our Fall course schedule and staffing.  But there should be more and more open slots in my schedule.  I should have more time and be able to do things more reflexively.

Which is hard.  Emergencies are easy;  it's the day-to-day stuff where there's higher expectations.  I can always blame my twenty balls in the air for mistakes when I'm swamped.  Work without excuses, that's scary.