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Not keeping up
For the time being, I'm going to have to de-friend a number of people on the list - I'm simply getting behind in posts. There is absolutely nothing personal in this. I just need to clear the list a little. And, since I don't put blocks or filters into smaller and smaller lists, pretty much everything I post is public to everyone. (I see that "New in your Inbox - 426 new messages!" and know that on a good night, i read maybe 80. It makes me feel like a complete failure.)
I'm a bit overwhelmed right now; my editor asked me to re-write about 150 pages for the second time (plus the other 200 or so that I didn't even get to the first re-write on), and everything seems impossible. And it's been one of those days of trying to buy a new microwave and a new suitcase, and visiting two big-box warehouse-like stores with long lines, awful parking, and giant mobs of people... and having streets blocked off between here and there. The usual. (Driving home last night, both freeways that route from one side of The Hill to the other - and there are no other routes - had wrecks on them, at 10:45 at night) Since I started teaching, it's as if I use up all my People Points on Wednesday nights. The little blue gauge down at the lower left-hand corner of the screen is on empty. I need a Potion of Restore Proximity.
I did administer my first test of the semester, and am as usual wondering, "What part of Tell me Who or What this was, Where it lived or took place, When it took place, and Why It's Important - repeated on at least three distinct occasions - did you not hear? Did you miss the place where it's Written on top of the Exam Paper?" It's disturbingly clear that a lot of these people have no idea how to read for content... if they're even attempting to read at all. (I will not even go into the issues of spelling and grammar).
Back to work.
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