It's -6 degrees with a -17 degree windchill. I knew it was cold when I could actually feel my nose hairs, but all of my exposed skin was numb and my fingers were stinging inside leather gloves.
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Yesterday I was up for a total of 22.5 hours. I spent approximately 19.5 of those hours working on the long paper for my portfolio. I got five hours of sleep last night, walked on the treadmill this morning, went to class, taught, and worked on my long portfolio every spare minute. I left school tonight at 9:15-ish, a printed draft in my advisor's mailbox and emailed drafts in his and three other people's inboxes. I am still unsatisfied with the conclusion, and I'm not even sure I have a cohesive argument. (I think I've been working on it too long.) I am both hoping that my drafted reviewers will praise it and find little that needs revisions and dreading that they will think it is awful and I have to completely redraft (rewrite) it again. I am tempted to let myself fail if it they indicate the latter (just kidding--kind-of).***
Tomorrow I need to write my "short" portfolio paper. First I need to gather sources. I hope to have a very polished draft of this to my advisor and a friend by noon on Friday. Knowing the way I write academic prose (very slowly and deliberately), this will require another 22+ hour day and I still probably won't get it to them until late Saturday night. However, I am going to do my best to make my noon deadline. The sooner I get it done, the sooner I can sleep for hours and hours on end.***
I'm planning on taking Sunday off. Staying in bed and watching movies. Perhaps using the elliptical machine for half an hour. Not touching homework. No. Matter. What. Unless I'm not done with that short paper.***
My mind spinning out of control. Have to write the rhetorical analyses...when? Will my advisor look them over? Meeting with Dr. R tomorrow re: long paper...how much more work will he give me? Have to get back on my email tomorrow morning to retrieve my students' homework. Promised them I'd give them comments on Monday. When will I work on further portfolio revisions? On reading for Carl's class? Dorothy's class?***
My cat won't stop yelling at me. She is a very loud, vocal cat. Usually I don't mind, but tonight I am very tired and it is very annoying.***
Missed The Office today. Didn't have time for that twenty minutes of humour, and wasn't home yet anyway.
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What was I going to write? It slipped my mind and seemed important...
Oh,
well.
Going
to
bed. (If I can stop my mind from racing.)
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