I dremt this morning that I decided not to go to class, and then omnipotently realized that none of the other TAs came either, and felt bad about it. Then I woke up and realized that I had actually turned my alarm off already, and thus was already a bit late. Not much, but mussing up my pre-consciousness routine always messes with my day. My optimal wake-up strategy is to wake up the first time my alarm goes off, calculate how many minutes until I actually get out of bed (usually the exact same time, give or take about four minutes) and then sleep in three to five minute chunks until I arrive at the sweet spot (total = about 18 minutes). If I have to haul myself out of bed the first time I see the clock I stay muddled all morning, if not all day.
So my day was sort of a drag. I got my handout made for the presentation I’m giving tomorrow, and I got all my papers graded and put in the grade book. I also went to yoga, and had a particularly rough class today. Somehow it seemed to take me three times longer to do anything than it should. And I was mid-level grumpy all day, which is stupidly so hard to shake, and compounds on itself. Meh. Anyway, I’ll be glad to have tomorrow out of the way, and this week over with. We’re having a cute game & snacks night with a bunch of us linguistics kids, which should be a lot of fun. So I just have to get through a section, my office hours (which are sometimes quite a trial..) and this presentation, and then I’m home free. Phew. Four weeks of nothing, and then one last class presentation, and we’ll be on summer vacation before I know it!