October 12, 2008

• Weekend

  I took the opportunity this weekend to disappear entirely for two days from close friends and family and classmates. And it was great. Except I got nothing done. I was not student, nor teacher, nor anything much this weekend beyond relaxed. And now I feel slightly guilty, but I'd do it the same way all over again.

  Now I'm at work (I feel like I'm here every day, which is odd because it's a part time job) and of course, tired. I had to wake up relatively early this morning to drive the two hours back to Delaware from my escape. And now I wish I were at home napping instead of holding in my thinly veiled irritataion at the woman who I'm normally very patient with, a woman who insists on repeatedly asking me questions about setting up email accounts and looking up videos online. Normally I'm patient and very sweet. Today she is irritating me, and she can probably tell.

  I'm at work and I've had to repeat to myself several times as justification for not grading papers while I'm here that I'm going to be very good this week. I just said it out loud, three times. "I'm going to have to be good this week." I don't know if I've convinced myself, but somehow or another I'm going to have to get in some serious grading, reading and writing before Friday.

  Good lord, it's mid-October already. I am horrorstruck.

  • 5:19 pm
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