Thursday, January 10, 2008

Game on.

Semester now fully underway, and after seven months away from it all--the bureaucratic craziness, the impossibility of doing all the things that must be done in the allotted time, the keeping straight of names--I am most struck by how much energy it takes to be ON for so many hours a day. I'd forgotten.

2 comments:

Lisa B. said...

I always find it takes a minute, or a week, to really get going. Whew.

Anonymous said...

Amazing, isn't it. And teachers have it worse than students -- the most difficult thing about my transition back to studenthood was remembering that being a student means being completely exhausted one hundred per cent of the time. Them brains, they work real hard, they do. Yipes!