music: Pink Floyd- Meddle
This is how the past day or so has broken down:
Friday was a full day at school. I was in at 8:00am. The morning was teaching, the afternoon was meetings about things coming up next week (our on-the-fly curriculum), next month (museum of science field trip that I’m organizing), in two months (water project). It’s all hard to juggle. I’m managing. Then our weekly faculty meeting. Then grading. I got out around 6:30pm. That was the fourth ten-hour day this week. Fine. A quick nap and then onto more work. The Water Project curriculum I was working on was apparently shit. So I have to overhaul it.
M. calls with an invitation to go hear some music. I talk to her a bit on the way home. I must be a loser and decline for two nights in a row. I haven’t seen her since December, since she went to Central America and back and I’ve been there and back again. We’re long overdue for a check-in, but that will have to wait too.
Tmo calls. I forget what I said to him. Something about a promise I made to work on some audio editing for the Murphy’s stuff. Whoops.
A nap first. The nap begins around 8:30pm, and like a champion I sleep until 3:30am. I lied in bed for a while thinking dark thoughts, getting really angry and feeling very lonely. Then up for some work, some tea, some scotch, then back to bed. Then up at 8:00am on Saturday. More work. Then some errands. Some food. Then back in front of the computer.
M. from NY calls somewhere in there. I couldn’t sustain a thought to make conversation meaningful. I’m having visions of reservoirs, sewers, and effluent all the while. Shit.
So with brief interruptions on the phone and 45 minutes for dinner, I’ve been blasting away at this water unit. It’s not done. It’s pushing 2:00am Saturday night now. And I still have to crank out a 15-pager about the unit plan once it is done. I’ve missed catching a show with M., catching up with tmo, a birthday party in Central Square, and I haven’t really talked to anyone today. Work is not near finished. What sort of a life is this?
Posted by davidtaus at February 8, 2004 01:39 AM