can i sleep now?

What a rough weekend. It's the end of the semester crunch, and I've just spent the last several days grading papers I was behind on, transcribing interviews (it takes between five and eight minutes for me to transcribe one minute of speech, and I've got 2 1/2 hours of interviews), and writing a draft of a paper for my history class. Of course, everything has been taking me about five times the amount of time I expected it to take, so I'm still behind where I wanted to be at this point (I need to do some editing work to bring in the "big" bucks, and still have some grading left) and about fifteen hours behind on sleep. Thanks to Chris who told me I take years off of my life every time I short myself on sleep (what else am I supposed to do when it's crunch time?). Ah, but tonight--tonight I will sleep. Too bad I have to set my alarm to be teaching at 10:00. :)

Happy Tuesday, everyone. And don't worry if you don't hear from me until next weekend--it's the final push to the finish line from here on out.