Tags: supervision, stress, tired, exams, PhD, teaching
Date: 15 March 2006 21:45:19
Right up to last week it didn't feel like nearly the end of term, and I felt like I had more energy than I did with a week to go last term. But this week it's hitting me - I have supervision tomorrow which I'm really dreading, every time I try to string a couple of thoughts together I feel like I'm about to do whatever the human equivalent of the "blue screen of death" is (anyone who's had a computer pack up on them will know all about that!), I can't get coherent sentences out, I'm sleeping long enough but not deep enough (I certainly don't feel rested anyway when I wake up), I've no idea what my Phd is on about, I feel incapable of intellectual thought, I just want a break. Thankfully I'm going to get one - I'm off to London for a bit in a week's time, and can't wait, it'll be the first time I've seen lots of my friends since moving here in September - but even then that's stressful, as it means that I have less time to do all the things I need to do here.
Oh well - only 16 more tutorials to do (not that I'm counting or anything) and 80-something essays to mark, and then at least that's the teaching out of the way for a few months. Just don't mention the Russian revision. Or the Romanian revision. Or the literature reviewing which is currently at the wading through treacle stage. Or the planning for Romania in the summer. Or the qualitative methods assignment. Or or or or or. Roll on Friday.