Too much to do, too little time

Mood: drained, exhausted

Currently watching: Grey's Anatomy


Sorry for being MIA for so long. It's been crazy to say the least. Even now, I have an endless to-do list. But Grey's is the one show I allow myself to watch and I feel like I have a fever (I'd rather not check because it's not like I can miss work tomorrow anyway), so I figured I deserve a little break.

I've been struggling with fitting in everything: academic advising (this week was registration for first-year students, so I've been bombarded with last minute questions), the usual ResLife stuff (Staff Meetings, 1:1's), a huge load of judicials (at least compared to other colleagues), NRHH, chairing the Adviser Training Committee, teaching a Leadership course and trying to give this whole Living Learning Community thing some structure for next semester. I usually start work at 9 AM. I'm in the office or in meetings all day. In the evenings, I either have staff meeting or corridor meetings (we've had to address some alcohol and safety concerns) or programs (we've also had lots of those). I usually get stuck talking to some residents (answering more advising questions or just helping with other random things) and then it's about 9 or 10 by the time I get back to my apartment. I'm usually pretty tired and drained by that time, but work isn't over yet. I hardly ever get any time to work on projects and other tasks during the day, so that's what I do at night. Personal time hasn't existed for the past month. Sleeping mostly happens on the weekends.

I'm not trying to complain. I know I do some of it to myself by being an overachiever and not being able to deal with things not being perfect. But part of it is just this job.

I feel like, as long as everything goes as planned, I'm able to handle it. But when something goes wrong, everything falls apart.

But complaining and whining won't help, so let's talk about something else.

Hmmm, how about my LLC: The first semester in CHANGE and of my Residential Curriculum has gone over pretty well. My staff likes the structure and direction the curriculum provides. I like knowing that there are some educational components that we're getting across to residents. Yes, there are definitely some things I need to revise. For example, we had students from our Leadership class do corridor workshops - having all of those over a very brief period of time was a bad idea. There was just an overload of programming going on in the building. Also, having all the corridor do their community service project the same month provided some challenges.
Once all this craziness slows down - who knows when that'll be but it has to happen some time - I will revise the curriculum from this semester for next year. But first, I need to come up with a curriculum for second semester.
We're planning a Spring Break Service Trip. It's all getting a little stressful because I should have booked it a long time ago - but Habitat for Humanities makes you pay for the trip if you have to cancel it or don't have enough participants - so I don't want to do so unless I really know who is all going. I'm also trying to get funding from various sources, which has worked out pretty well so far, but it's just been a lot of work. Hopefully in a week or so I'll have this whole trip figured out.

Okay, now I really need to get some rest. I'll write more soon. :)