the day did not begin so well

when the first thing I did (other than wake up my daughter and promptly fall back asleep in her bed)  (and while my bestest friend in the world was out buying milk for coffee since I had been up until 12:30am and had no energy) was to transfer a payment into the mortgage instead of the home equity loan. the mortgage is this big dark hole and as I saw the transfer complete, I could here the sound of the money disappearing, never to be seen again. ok, wellsfargo says I can have it back tomorrow when it actually posts to the mortgage. but there was a moment when I saw it going from useful backup money, accessible, keeping us from having to scrounge each month, to gone, gone, gone. I'll feel a lot better tomorrow when I see it back.

as for the online classes. relentless. I'm totally wiped out. exhausted. I'm up every night answering questions and writing quizzes. at least next fall these quizzes will be re-used. if only they'd say thank you rather than always asking, why is this quiz answer not right? oh. the whole downtime led to extensions that some folks, I swear, deliberately misunderstood and by the end of the day yesterday, I just opened all the stupid quizzes up until next Monday and see if that makes them happy. I'm sure it won't. but I'm tired of arguing. I don't usually have extensions. I'm more likely to cancel something that I don't think will work -- a quiz, or the annotated bibliography in ws this week, rather than get into the "I didn't see the notice of the extension" or "I thought the extension included x and y, and not just z."

sigh.

but the best one was yesterday when the student wrote in reply to my gentle reminder from two weeks ago that the first essay was overdue, that she misunderstood the start day of the class (May 19) and could I send her a syllabus now? also she'd have to miss next week, too, for a trip. (we are in week 5 of 6).

yup. I'm exhausted.

the piano is great! there will be pictures. and when I get back from all of the June travels (3 trips in the next 3 weeks), I will paint and then we'll make some decisions around here.

cheers.

(this whole entry does start sounding like the last book I read was The World of Pooh).

Comments

[joanna]

I'm glad the piano is in-house. Have a good time on all of your jaunts. Keep in touch.