Yesterday was bad. Couldn't stop crying, even at Star Trek. (Good movie, but the opening scene was a little much for my fragile mental state.)
But today is better. It is the first day of summer and I have a ton to do. Luckily, most of it can be done from home, in my pj's.
Here is a partial list:
>Edit and upload my summer course for the distance students
>Write specific aims, hypotheses, and analyses for my Alzheimer's study
>Send a course description of my Food and Film class to my boss
>Make a remediation coursework packet to send to the poor kids that didn't pass their clinical rotations
>Finish my photo albums
>Wash the dogs
And various and sundry other housekeeping-type things.
I'm tired of feeling so anxious and thisclose to shattering. I think a quiet summer to reflect and regroup is exactly what the doctor ordered.
2 comments:
I'm sorry you're having a bad couple of days. That first bit of Star Trek does kind of whack you in the head, doesn't it? Then it gets you all smiling with the scene after it and Kirk in the car... bipolar editing.
I keep meaning to call you about your class. There's this thing I do from a book called "How To Read Literature Like a Professor" about food. Every meal in a book (or movie, for that matter) is also communion. Not simply the religious kind (although that's true, sometimes) but a kind of sharing process that is very important in lit. When you see an author take the time to show it, it's damned serious. And when it's disrupted, (meal screwed up for whatever reason) that's serious too. I could tell that you're going for that in some of your movie choices, but I'd love to explain this more from the "Lit Prof" place. It sounds so cool, what you're doing. :)
Feel better soon. Get back to me on summer plans in general.
I should SO MAKE you come here and drink some of my Virgin of Guadalupe vanilla for several days, then send you back home with that fortification and see what happens.
Thanks.
Yes, I would love to hear more of the Lit Prof angle :)
Fortification would be good, but maybe later in the summer. Right now being around babies and toddlers makes me more than a little bitter and jealous. It's not pretty. I went to the chiropractor 2 weeks ago and a pregnant woman set me off. I cried through the entire appt.
I really haven't had time to find my center this semester. I literally had to work throughout the miscarriage. I just need time.
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