Bedtime

Would someone please sing me a lullaby?

I have been getting nowhere near enough sleep lately. I just have more work to do than there are hours in the day for… and I’m trying to be physically active and maintain other parts of my life as well. So let it be known that tonight, for the first time in about two weeks, I will be getting more than five hours of sleep (I know many of you out there get less than this on a regular basis… my apologies for being a wimp) as long as I get to bed and fall asleep within the next hour. 

I have no idea how all of this work has piled up. I grade stuff for about two hours each day, so you’d think I’d always get done with it right away. Oh wait, I’m not a math teacher. So yeah, grading takes a long time if I do it right. And then there’s the committee meetings and other honorary (read: unpaid) posts I’ve had bestowed upon me since I’m the young, energetic employee with no spouse or children so I MUST have all the time in the world to be married to my job and to nurture the district as if it were my child. And then there’s the research group I’m doing for the $1200 to further the world’s knowledge of writing assessment, and the colleague whose dissertation data I’m co-rating along with a guy who is a Rhet/Comp PhD student (and god, if you have ever met someone who actually choses to spend their entire life studying both prescriptive and descriptive rhetoric… oh boy…) … why do I sign up for this stuff again??? Does my vitae really need that much padding at the moment?  

Uuuuuummmmmmm….. duuuuuuhhhh…. did I mention I sometimes ramble incoherently when I am exhausted but can’t make myself go to sleep yet? 

I think my problem is that I have not hibernated lately. Let me explain. I usually have a weekend every month or two when I’m so exhausted that between the end of work on Friday and the waking up for work on Sunday I sleep for a about  36 hours total. I have not done that since December, and man, do I need to. I am one scattered and useless person when I’m sleep deprived. 

Anyway… here I go. No more writing for me… I have another long day ahead of me tomorrow. Please forgive me for this if you are more sleep deprived than I am.