My energy can best be described as ragged. I’m all over the place and moving quickly from one thing to the next with little moments to transition. This is because I am overwhelmed. I long for the days of being simply whelmed. Everything feels so much harder to put together lately. I meant to be ahead of the class building, yet I am designing new material every week–sometimes hours before a class. I guess it means I am trying to make this timely and connected to stuff they care about, but it also means I am running myself down and that is not at all the direction I was trying to head in this semester. I wanted space to breathe and have a life focus. This ain’t that.
There’s not much of a ‘what to do’ here. I have 8 more weeks worth of lessons to prepare along with two more classes I am taking starting next week. I am going to be overwhelmed. I am going to need to find a way to balance all of this stuff along with writing. I can only give it so much of my life. I feel like the writing is the part that took the most heat–that suffered the most as a result of everything else going on. I abandoned the original story for the thesis and this new (old) one I am finally writing, I am not writing, though it is a full novel that needs to be done before May. See, overwhelmed.
Perhaps this weekend I take a step back. I need a day to really collect myself and relax and reload.
Some Thoughts:
- Absolutely Bonkers Headline of the Day: “US hits Bank of America with $1.2 billion fine, saying it violated money laundering, sanctions laws” That’s a B. So, what kind of crazy were they really up to, and if that is the fine, how much $$$ was actually moved?!
- Kid’s team is ranked 19/25 depending on where you look. Not bad, but on the other hand, they beat two teams that were previously in the top 5/10–again depending on where you look. Why so dang low? It goes back to what coaches have been saying forever. Logos are what people judge. They see a logo and what that logo has come to represent long before they see the talent on the roster or how the team has actually played. They play against the #6 team (everyone agrees on that) this weekend. It is a road game. They have yet to win a road game. Good test. Fair test. It is the best QB they’ll see all season. I’m excited to watch.