Meatballs in gorgonzola sauce. Superb.
But I need to move beyond the good eating and get back to rabbit food. The holidays are over, we're 11 days into the new year, the graduate course has only two more classes before another semester begins, and truthfully, I need rest and a reset. I need to find a way to make it through the Spring. My whole life I've heard, "Crandall, you're going to burn yourself out." I'm high energy and resisted. If it is for the students and good for the world, I always find more oomph to get through.
My oomph has dissipated. I need to step back for a little bit and run at a 7 for a while...a C on the grading scale. Perhaps, I even need to enter the failed stated and just sleep.
I expect many more projects today. The classes for Monday and Tuesday, however, are planned. I just need to record, organize, share with the crew, and keep the pom poms shiny to cheer them to the finish line.
And I need to put laundry away. Organize all my damn books. Appreciate 'time away' even when I don't have time away (at least there's no meanings - that's a blessing). But I know I await the return of those who didn't have to give up four weeks to a winter session so students can graduate at time. I know I have the ears returning, too, who don't seem to hear that this has all become too impossible...to cruel. But it has. I am being honest.
I need to find the way to recharge.
