Reaching Easter

It had been a couple of very full-on weeks. There is a sizeable amount of background work to do, and if you have to squeeze it in between practicals, student presentations, field trips, and even a PhD viva, it's hard work. There is, of course, the work that you know you need to do, like providing students feedback, doing journal reviews, and organising the dissertation presentation conference, but sometimes you get such a load of emails while you are away from your desk for several hours, all demanding more work, that you start lagging more and more behind.

All the last Friday before the Easter break, when we don't teach the students, I was walking from lunch back to the office with a colleague, and he asked me if I had some running injury. I asked if he thought I was limping. He just said he thought I was very slow. That was just how tired I was! And I'm sure he was worse, but at least I could not detect it in how he moved from building to building.

That afternoon I came home and I was very relieved that now I would get three weeks in which I could catch up on the backlog. And organise my time the way I see fit. There is very little timetabled now. 

I suppose one of the most important things I need to get out of the way now is organising the student presentation conference. I hadn't got very far with that yet. But I can start with doing something about that straight away on Monday morning. I'm sure I'll be making good progress with that.

Reaching Easter is always an important milestone of the year. And I've done it!