Day 3 - 320 -- Running to Exhaustion

It has been a rather fast paced day. It began with returning one large bag of graded papers and then continued with two lectures and discussions followed by individual meetings with students. By afternoon I had a chance to catch up on the gazillion e-mails that had landed in the inbox since yesterday. I tried to organize some larger group meetings and interviews that need to be done before the end of term -- 2.5 weeks from now. <smile>

Anxiety dreams should be kicking into high gear any night now. Packing content and grading into the final days of term carries much stress. The lack of sleep is written on all faces I encounter. Stress plus lack of sleep is an equation for negative emotions to run amok. Patience dwindles. Filters falter leading to a greater need to bite one's tongue. Anxieties rule. Altogether, communication efforts  fail more often than usual.

I headed home for supper with a thought of going to an evening lecture by a former Prime Minister, but after eating I read the mail and fell asleep for 30 minutes. When I woke, there wasn't time to get to campus on time. A song that a colleague had mentioned earlier today came back to mind. The singer-songwriter has produced the soundtrack of a generation. This is from an earlier version of the song from an iconic album -- I have it in the original vinyl. <smile>  Enjoy!

It's too Late -- Carole King