14 Aðustos 2021, Cumartesi
saat: 21:36
Just in a week, I am going to be back to working full day, yet we’re already getting a cat to foster. E. will not be happy, so we may have our own refugee crisis at home very soon, but so many kitties are on the euthanasia list at our local shelter that A. and I could not resist doing something.
I’m not feeling TRUE panic but I’m feeling the time pressure very, very strongly. I need to just do some talking-aloud through the next few weeks to make sure I have a sense of what’s coming up:
course planning stuff: classes technically start in ten days but next week will be taken over with so many faculty activities that I think I need to devote TWO full workdays on campus to complete the following tasks:
*create the new LMS and type up the course schedule
*email advisees about the first meeting
*update the old course syllabus and note the changes in the grading system
*write up the specs for assignments
*work on an annotated version of the course proposal and give "clearer" reasons why this course should get that specific GER credit
*decide if I want to have a class discussion template that they’ll use for each week, or if I want to send those out individually
*do some thinking about individual meetings - do I want to do those over zoom, in person, or both?
I think I’m in decent shape for the beginning of the semester but taking two days to do this stuff will just help me clear it off my desk mentally/emotionally instead of letting the light anxiety continue to simmer on the back burner for the next couple of days.
writing stuff: AHHhhHhhhhHHHhhhHghhnhnghhh — those are my feelings about writing stuff. I haven't even started the co-authored project, and I promised to Caroline that we'd be going to that conference in DC to present our results in November. What results, though? Plus, I am supposed to give feedback to Allison and learn exactly what kind of irredentist conversations might be taking place in the media. I haven't even started thinking about Eurovision paper. so let’s say i have less tan 2 months days to finish 2 papers. i need to get through about a few pages per day. this isn’t impossible right? this is doable? i can do this, question mark?
I am super not excited about returning to campus and teaching in tiny cramped classrooms in a red state with no vaccination mandates, but I am VERY eager to feel grounded and connected to my work again. Sigh.
