Low energy day. I am working through a lot of things and my brain is slowed by the effort. Mostly I am trying to figure out the physical stuff that is haunting me, but the work stuff is a serious drag on my mental energies right now. I need to engage in the way needed in order to simply write full time and make the sort of money that would allow teaching to be the secondary job situation. That would be quite nice. In the meanwhile, I gotta get this body back in some kind of shape so I can actually stay alive. It seems to not be functioning up to age-based standards. The weight is a big part of that.
Some Thoughts:
- It occurs to me that in Academia, once you’ve hit the moment where you are teaching everything you love and doing all of the things you find to be the best for you, it is exactly the time when all of it falls apart. That is generally how Academia feels like it works. People see you get where you want to be and then they start asking questions about why you get to be there. Such is the way…