Good news on the teaching front. I've been so anxious on my teaching days for the last month that I couldn't eat anything besides crackers and soda on those days. Now, things have improved so I can actually eat a solid lunch before I go into my evening class. At least I don't have to worry about fainting now.
As far as prepping goes, I'm still overdoing it. I'm teaching a course that is far enough outside of my area that I feel insecure about my knowledge of the material, so I end up doing a mini-research project for each lecture. This whole venture, of course, isn't helping me balance things in my life, even within the academic sphere. I was frantically working to submit a job application earlier today, and it just seemed so wrong to be so close up against a deadline when a document that could determine one's fate is at stake.
Even my writing has been totally set aside this month for the first time in years, which is pretty terrible, as I have two manuscripts that need immediate resuscitation! Notorious PhD's recent posts are inspiring me to start writing again. If you haven't read them, you must. Her results speak for themselves.
Awww... thanks for the shout-out, Alice! I actually just posted something else, a manifesto on the importance of writing in a time of financial crisis. I don't usually toot my own horn on blog posts, but this pretty much sums up why I'm doing what I'm doing.
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