Welp, it finally happened: my girlfriend has been sick for the last... 5 days or so? and I've managed to avoid getting it up till now. As is, it's a mild sickness, but i'm definitely sick. Sitting in the living room, cat sleeping on a chair, looking out the window at the rain, listening to the thunder. It's quite soothing. Sipping on some Gypsy Cold Care tea, which works pretty well, at least in the short term.
I've managed to totally finish all the homework associated with Observation 1. I've got half a page left to write for Observation 2. Then I've got a few pages to fill out for Observation 3, and I'm done with the first half of the big assignments. I've got a quick timeline to create, one or two other little things, and then a massive undertaking in the form of the last week of homework from last summer. That will likely take three full days, doing nothing but that, and by the end I'll have a google document that is over a hundred pages long. That part is probably not going to be started until my job teaching ends in two weeks. At which point I will have one week to do all remaining homework, get myself packed, and drive cross country to San Diego.
It's probably a good thing my girlfriend will be gone for most of that time as otherwise she might feel it rude, how I was spending every waking moment working.
And then when I get there, it's gonna stay at about that pace until the end of classes, second week in August. I don't know how much time I get from then to professional development starting up again, but I'll be trying not to make the same mistake as last time, and get my final weeks homework done while it's fresh in my mind, but I'll probably be exhausted by the time I get back and need at least a few days of rest. Next year may be even more intense. I'll need to do more memorizing, I'll be student teaching for four weeks, and I'll be trying to prepare for the oral and written test that is required to gain my AMI diploma at the end of that third summer. Not to mention there are several corrections I need to make to previous homeworks, and and almost certainly there will be even more of those piling up this summer.
In a nutshell, I won't really get a break from this crazy pace until the end of two summers from now. Perhaps by then I'll just have acclimated to it?
Anyways, life is good, regardless. I'll get it done when I get it done. As is, I'm at least only slightly behind where I was hoping to be. The biggest challenge is maintaining focus and productivity through the end of eight to ten hour work days where all I'm doing is sitting at a computer, typing and thinking hard. I try to take regular short breaks to move and relax my brain, but there's still only so much I can do before it's taking me three times as long to get something done and I'm better off just sleeping and starting again the next day.
Anyhoo, that's what's on my mind this week, and likely for the next three weeks, until my summer training course starts again. Thank God for Memorial Day, though it's too bad I'm sick, and so functioning at significantly reduced capacity and productivity.
In any case, have a good week, and see ya next time
;-)
-Isaac
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