It's funny.
I've regularly used the word "frayed" to describe a mental/emotional state in myself. The language of fiber is even creeping into my analogies.
My quilt is supposed to be done today. I don't know whether to bust out after my 11:00 class and go pick it up and go vegetable and herb plant shopping, and spend the afternoon in my garden, or whether to stay here and hope that the student needing to make up an exam will call me like he said he might.
the weather guy this morning said "If you can get out and enjoy today, do it." I presume that means this weekend is going to be yucky. So I don't know. My Inner Wilt is saying "stay put, get your grading done, rewrite those couple of lectures, be there" but another part of me is saying "but you'll be sad if you work hard today while the sun is shining and wake up tomorrow to find it's raining buckets and too windy to go out." So I don't know.
I do need to stop bleating here (another fiber analogy, though this one to fiber-on-the-hoof) and get back to grading the homeworks I'm working on.
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Diann, I think my comments are kinda messed up. I don't get e-mail notification (I used to) and it acts like there's been an error when I try to comment.
I'm taking off. It's 1 pm here, no one's called, I've done about half my grading and lecture-updating.
I think the problem is I've become way too much of a people-pleaser, and I do it when it's detrimental to my own emotional health. And I've not had enough time to myself recently. And I'm in conflict between the general trend in teaching (to give the students more and more help and more and more background information as handouts, online postings, etc., etc.) and what I experience "on the ground" (when you spoon-feed too much, people get lazy and don't learn). ANd that frustrates me, because I hear the education gurus saying "be more helpful, be more accomodating, be more active-learning" and what I'm experiencing is people who want me to do everything for them...
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