Midsummer Crunch

I'm entering the last week of Summer Session I at the college I'm teaching at. This means crunch time. I'm staring at a huge stack o' horrible papers, another stack o' notes to be converted into PowerPoint lessons, and the big black and white mush sitting in the middle of all of it.

Now how am I supposed to get any work done. That belly is going "pet me mommy pet me." Argh.

Anyhoo...this week is going to be insane. While I'm finishing up the work from this summer session, I have to start prepping next session which starts next Monday. No rest for the weary, eh? I just keep reminding myself: I get three weeks off in August.

Oh, and I didn't mean to imply that all librarians are those stereotypical mean nasty ones, though one of the colleges I teach at has a whole slew of them. I know there are some really great ones out there. I'm hoping to break that stereotype. One thing my boss did tell me was that the patrons enjoy coming to the library because I'm so nice and talkative. No "sush-ing" from me. :) I'm just afraid that I'll get stuck with a bunch of the mean ones after I get my degree.

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