Day 3 - 309 -- Entering the Final Tunnel

It has been a crazy week with an excess of happenings at home and work. The work day ended with a meeting to outline future work for a lengthy review process. I'll admit it was difficult to be in the right frame of mind for this when I was tired and a little wired with the new piles of grading that arrived today. I headed home with a favourite pizza from our local mobile wood-fired oven vendor. It was my treat for the week ending -- not that work doesn't continue all weekend with grading and such, but it is at home instead of in the freezing cold office.

The anxious feeling that arrives as the last four weeks of a 13 week term commence is ever present. It seems I've mentioned this event in the blog before <smile> as I read through the posts from the past two years. All I can say is that it hasn't changed. Not only are the faculty feeling overwhelmed, but the students and staff are in the same situation. There is much to do and the end is almost in sight. This causes a desperate frenzy rather than a feeling of impending calm <sigh>.

I fell asleep in front of the TV and laptop last night, so this is a day late heading out to you. The song chosen for yesterday dealt with the roller coaster of emotions that are in play as the term ends. I suspect that it doesn't help that several major holidays occur just before and just after the term ends. The song that came to mind yesterday covers the concept of those multiple emotions in a single term -- one that comes from Thoreau. The singer-songwriter uses an uptempo country sound to deliver the message. Enjoy!

Quiet Desperation -- Micky Dolenz