Readers of this blog, or folks randomly appearing on the home page, will notice that my last post was on Oct. 8th. That’s a long time not to post so much as an update. Surely I must have a good reason, right?
Actually, I do. The last month has been one of the heaviest work periods of the semester, in part because October is the month of midterms. Since I am a teacher, that means I’ve been grading papers for the past three weeks. My grading pile only recently dropped below 100 papers (excepting in-class writing, which doesn’t take as much time as essays and response papers).
But that’s not all I’ve been up to. This semester is also the last time I will ever take a graduate-level course, which means I made the conscious choice to ask for the one course I knew would load me with a lot of reading and writing work (this professor happens to be on my committee). Throw in podcasting duties, personal life nonsense, the paper on the film adaptation of Cloud Atlas I have been working on, and other miscellaneous stuff like voting, etc. and you’ll have a good idea why blogging has taken a side track for the time being. In all honesty, I am probably working close to 80 hours a week, on average, which includes prepping for seminar, prepping lectures for five classes, grading papers for five classes, and so on and so forth. Let it never be said that we teacher people don’t work our asses off.
That said, I am not quitting. Quite the contrary. November is a considerably lighter month, since there are numerous holidays and the like here in the States. I just wanted everyone to know that I didn’t disappear into the night.
On that note, how is everyone doing?
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I have a cold. And it's not one of those run-of-the-mill, namby pamby Floridididia colds either, but a full-on Wisconsin hummdinger. I blame you.
Eck. That sucks. I hope I don't catch a cold before the weekend. I'm going to a wedding in Arkansas…