02 Dec Frazzled Week 10

It’s week 10 of a 12 week quarter (if you include finals week as a week – it’s 11 of instruction). And, as happens with every quarter, the madness is ensuing and we are all becoming frazzled.

This is not a complaint. Really. It’s simply the reality of a quarter system – the sudden gallop toward the end without the trot in the middle.

This morning is a particularly frazzled morning. I forgot to brush my teeth. So I decided to stop by the campus store for (yet another) hygiene kit. I pulled out a book to read on the bus and realized I had no highlighter. Add that to the shopping list. Oh, and no pen. Or notebook. Or, ruler. I somehow made it out of the house without anything useful for the day.All I had was a book for a student and Colin Cremin’s Capitalism’s New Clothes, which I actually shouldn’t be reading yet as I’m working on an entirely different paper for Oecumene, not my dissertation.

And late.

Apparently, I had a meeting with a student who has been a bit absent this quarter, and I showed up a half hour late. She had to go.

Here goes!

Update: this past week, i have managed to leave the tap on all day (i came home to a steady stream of warm water), left a water bottle under the tap for over an hour, and twice left the cast iron skillet on a hot burner for 45 minutes, left Mao’s medications on the counter without giving them to him… at this point, i’m just becoming a danger to myself (and others).