Day 4 - 109 -- Arduous Task Ahead

Today's word is exhaustion. The alarm went off this morning and I couldn't get myself to wake up. I kept falling back to sleep. Throughout the day, I was yawning much more than usual. I invigilated the second final exam today, so am now in possession of 140 exams that need attention from my red pen. Finding the spell from the sorcerer's apprentice to make the pen work would be good. My luck, though, the pen would go crazy and just draw doodles instead of do the actual grading. Grading gnomes might work, but I need a shoemaker to help me figure out how to get in touch with such creatures. Exhaustion seems to be messing with my thought processes <smile>.

As I've said many times, getting my head in the game can be so challenging when I understand the hatefulness of the task. I'm trying not to keep counting the number of exams. I have three courses as do many others. I just need to get through them one at a time and forget the total number of exams. The numbers have the ability to make one focus on them instead of the task at hand. So -- two exams written with the third to come in a few more days. Getting through what grading I can before the next exam, would be the best goal for now. This has never been easy. Being exhausted before it begins in earnest doesn't bode well.

The title line from a song ran through my head tonight as I was thinking through these feelings. I'm sharing a version by one of the co-writers of the song, but not the one we hear most often. It is a demo version and I like the small changes to the phrasing and melody. And thankfully the great guitar is still there. <smile> Enjoy!

It don't come easy -- George Harrison