Prepoceros

. . . began eight hours ago, when I finished teaching my last class of the weekend. It’s now the final week of the semester (modulo one extra Monday), the period when managing my time becomes crucial (upgraded from “rather important”) to my passing my classes and maintaining my sanity.

If my memory is correct (most of these things are written in my planner, but it’s SO many inches away), my next five days will feature two problem sets, four exams, one term paper, one eight-page writing assignment, and a few dozen lines of translation. There may also be a few homework assignments that have been allowed to ripen but really ought to be turned in by the end of the week if I am to retain any shred of dignity and honest dedication to my scholarship. Just a few. Like one. If you don’t count Modern Physics. Like seven if you do.

I estimate that roughly one-third of my overall grade for this semester will be determined by the work I do this week. I don’t actually have a well-defined notion of what “x of my overall grade” means, but one-third sounds like a good number, doesn’t it? Perhaps it means that I anticipate that in the coming week I will do approximately half the amount of work I’ve done semester-to-date. If all goes according to plan, that is. Which it will. More or less. Enamored of the mini sentence fragments tonight, aren’t we?

I have a cold. My nose is running like a running thing that runs a lot. I’ve been sick for two or three days now, so hopefully this is the worst of it.

My second effort towards the successful running of this gauntlet of a week (after the near-completion of my PDE problem set, due Wednesday, while proctoring this evening, woo!) was going to be the quick tying-up of this post with a warning not to expect much from me in the next little while beyond posts of what-I-had-for-lunch caliber so I could start the week with topped-off sleep reserves, but I’ve blathered on much too long for that now, and I didn’t even get to tell you about the wonderful weekend I’ve had (gorgeous weather! dog park! observatory!) and what a great run-up to the coming week it’s been.

So yes. I’m going now. This makes three posts in a row that I’ve ended awkwardly; I’ll flatter myself and call it a new record.

Tags: school

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