April 13, 2007
The burnout of overextension
Yikes.
I'm teaching two and a half credits this term; it's by my own choice, and because the extra one (my Scheme class) was meant as an adjunct to the AI class, I figured it wouldn't be that much more work. But it's still three classes, and there are a ton of people in the Scheme class, so it's a little more work than I bargained for.
Also, there's a philosophy class on minds, brains, and computers that I'm sitting in on. So that's work, too.
And I'm supervising an independent study that I'm trying to turn into a larger reading group.
Plus my usual round of extracurriculars and a stitch-n-bitch I'd like to add in so I can have some pure social time.
All of which adds up to not very much sleep and a sensation of being dangerously overextended. Really, I don't think I've had a schedule this full since at least early grad school. Fortunately, I don't need to sustain it for long—just another six weeks.
But they'll be long ones....
"Skeptics of evolution may have the bad luck of being on the wrong side
of the data, but the problem lies in the authority they choose to
accept—it doesn't make them stupid or fit for scorn. In fact, they are
revealing a weakness in Western science that many on the other side have
a hard time seeing." --Chris Tessone
Posted
by blahedo
at 9:44pm
on 13 Apr 2007
