Showing posts with label spring break. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spring break. Show all posts
Sunday, April 7, 2013
End of spring break
Spring break is often late here, because we get a long Mardi Gras weekend. Spring break doesn't occur until after Good Friday. I was so ready this year!
My intention this past week was to balance work with rest. It wasn't until yesterday that the ton of bricks hit me, probably after spending Friday working straight from 10 in the morning (on a writing date with a friend) to six at night (preparing for our big presentation to the Governor's Commission on anti-bullying initiatives). Yesterday, I collapsed--some sort of combination sinus/migraine headache, terribly sore neck, and nausea. I was so terribly whiny. I stayed in bed until midnight, when I had a miraculous calm in the storm--Mark made me some scrambled eggs which I devoured.
Today I was down for the count again. I'm eating, though, and feeling less nauseous. The pain is less, though it's still there. I'm dreading tomorrow--though I'd already planned to spend most of class this week showing a documentary (POV's Stonewall documentary--so good!), but tomorrow I'm on a panel for grad students about communication. Ugh. That's going to take an extra big coffee. And then Tuesday's the presentation.
I got the minimum done this week--student paper proposals responded to. Writing done. Started thinking about summer and fall syllabi, and requested a couple of desk copies. The couple of small assignments the professor whose RA I am this semester are done. I've still got bits and pieces to grade, but I'm okay with that.
As usual, it shall be a sprint to the finish. I'm thinking I may last until the end of Masterpiece Theater, and then back to sleep.
Sunday, April 15, 2012
End of Spring Break
Oddly enough, I can't seem to find a video clip from Heathers, of Veronica's dad asking how spring break withdrawal is coming along. Oh well.
Tomorrow is the first day back after this terribly late spring break. I'm mostly happy with the balance of work and not-work I achieved, although I'm still erring on the side of not-work. I'm quite pleased that I met my goal of finishing the 518-page Haunted Bodies: Gender and Southern Texts, an edited collection on my southern list. It took a while--after getting through that behemoth, it only took me a day to read The Color Purple (which I'd read before, but it's been years. Plus, it has the line, "The lord don't like ugly" in it, which is pretty important to my work). I also finished the abstract for the Berry Southern Women Writers conference I've been working on, and got that submitted. And I polished up a paper to submit for the department writing contest, which has tomorrow as its deadline.
In not-work news, we went to New Orleans Thursday for the book release/Eudora Welty's birthday event at Maple Street Books. There was wine, champagne, cheese & crackers, and birthday cake. The book, which is about the restoration of Welty's garden in Jackson, is a beautiful coffee-table book, and that author was quite entertaining. I love Welty people.
I slept a lot the last week, and worked out a decent amount. Knitted some. Put away my clothes and suitcase that was still out since the SSSL conference. Wore my pajamas until 3 and 4 in the afternoon many days. Repotted some seedlings. I also discovered that there's a jazzercise location much closer than the one I tried when we first moved here (as much as I love jazzercise, there's no way I'm driving 45 minutes each way for a class). This one's in more the 15-20 minute driving range, which is much more reasonable. And the student rate is $25/month, which is cheaper than the Y, which I was considering joining. I love jazzercise. So, I intend to try it out this week. That would be fabulous if I could start going to jazzercise regularly.
I also managed to go a week without washing my hair, which may be a record (yay for ponytails!). I shall now go and wash my hair in preparation for returning to school. Still, this week is logical fallacy week in the classes I'm teaching, which is a not-labor-intensive week for me. It's a nice way to ease back in.
Tomorrow is the first day back after this terribly late spring break. I'm mostly happy with the balance of work and not-work I achieved, although I'm still erring on the side of not-work. I'm quite pleased that I met my goal of finishing the 518-page Haunted Bodies: Gender and Southern Texts, an edited collection on my southern list. It took a while--after getting through that behemoth, it only took me a day to read The Color Purple (which I'd read before, but it's been years. Plus, it has the line, "The lord don't like ugly" in it, which is pretty important to my work). I also finished the abstract for the Berry Southern Women Writers conference I've been working on, and got that submitted. And I polished up a paper to submit for the department writing contest, which has tomorrow as its deadline.
In not-work news, we went to New Orleans Thursday for the book release/Eudora Welty's birthday event at Maple Street Books. There was wine, champagne, cheese & crackers, and birthday cake. The book, which is about the restoration of Welty's garden in Jackson, is a beautiful coffee-table book, and that author was quite entertaining. I love Welty people.
I slept a lot the last week, and worked out a decent amount. Knitted some. Put away my clothes and suitcase that was still out since the SSSL conference. Wore my pajamas until 3 and 4 in the afternoon many days. Repotted some seedlings. I also discovered that there's a jazzercise location much closer than the one I tried when we first moved here (as much as I love jazzercise, there's no way I'm driving 45 minutes each way for a class). This one's in more the 15-20 minute driving range, which is much more reasonable. And the student rate is $25/month, which is cheaper than the Y, which I was considering joining. I love jazzercise. So, I intend to try it out this week. That would be fabulous if I could start going to jazzercise regularly.
I also managed to go a week without washing my hair, which may be a record (yay for ponytails!). I shall now go and wash my hair in preparation for returning to school. Still, this week is logical fallacy week in the classes I'm teaching, which is a not-labor-intensive week for me. It's a nice way to ease back in.
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