End Days

The period after Thanksgiving Break is when all must come to a conclusion.  So many trade-offs in terms of content. It will fly by.

Extreme Fatigue

Our choral concert and the accompanying dress rehearsal were this week, along with a lot of grading for my classes.  I have hit a new low in sleep deprivation, but seem to be surviving.

I do keep myself pretty well-organized, so I've still been functional at work.  My body aches something awful though, to the point where it disrupts what little sleep I get.

This coming week should ease up a bit, with the Thanksgiving holiday.  I may not make up the lost rest but I shouldn't lose much more.

Speeding Toward the End

We're entering the second full week of November, and there's not much time left in our semester.  A week and a half until Thanksgiving Break, and then another week and a half of classes after that.

It's comforting to know that my schedule will ease up a bit soon, but I do feel the pressure of all that I had hoped to achieve this semester that remains undone.

Very few external burdens---my stressors are of my own creation.  Knowing that doesn't seem to help me to change much.  I can be very flexible about implementing my objectives but not about the objectives themselves, apparently.