Sunday, November 21, 2010
On the verge of a burnout
When my classes started, I was totally gung ho about them, excited with the tasks and getting them done. I know I am facing a burnout because my stupid persuasive speech is due in 36 minutes and I submitted it 44 minutes before the 12pm deadline. I'm not even proud of it, I hastily wrote it around 9pm, I honestly tried to do it earlier today, but my kids were screaming at each other while my husband was looking after them and they were screaming so loud, I had to abandon my assignment to go see who was killing who. The 17 month old was sitting on my husband while he laid on the 2 years old bed and the 2 year old was just screaming "We don't hit" and doing something that looked a lot like hitting. I had no choice but to intervene, abandoning my laptop on the bed until tonight. It was a hard topic, I wrote the speech and instead of memorizing it, I taped it to a Triscuit box, planted my Flip camera on top of the box and pretended I had a teleprompter. As for visual cues, I used family photos, but my speech still ran 2 freaking seconds short so I clearly should have included more. I figure she can't give me a zero and even if she takes off for it, I would be hard pressed to still not get an A in the class. The point is, all of this logic is irresponsible and I shouldn't be thinking this way, so wha-la, I am burned out. I did my psychology in a timely manner this week, but only because it was easy. I had to talk about what stressed me out... Kids, duh! I jumped at a chance to whine and then as per discussion board rules where I have to post a comment on someone else's topic, I found another mother who whined about her kids as well and totally gave her a virtual high five.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)

This is a great birthday present. i really like reading what you write, even with our (for the most part) frequent facebook messaging. Remember myspace? Whoa, that just blew my mind. Anyway, Triscuit box teleprompter made me laugh.
ReplyDelete