This morning I’m sitting near a floor to ceiling window in the UGLI (undergraduate library) looking out on the damp and dreary street and watching students scurry by under their umbrellas. I’m early for my 9:00 class even though I drove into AA from home this morning. I should use this time to get started on my last individual paper for my collection development course, but no. I’m so tired my neck and legs ache. I think it has to do with too many late nights at work and too many very early mornings. Could also have to do with hauling a (very) heavy backpack around everywhere I go these past couple of weeks. I need to remember to weigh that thing tonight. I hope it’s the pack and not my increasing weight that is causing my knees to ache!

Today I have class from 9-12 and then a meeting with my work mentor at 12:30. Then I’m free to work on a project at work and/or the paper due Monday and/or the paper due the next week and/or the group project that I don’t want to talk about. Or maybe take a nap. Eating something would also be a good thing. I’ll see if I can fit any or all of it in. I work tonight from 6-9 p.m. So it’s another twelve hour plus day in Ann Arbor. Not so many of these left I guess. But at the moment there seems no end in sight as I pack up and head toward lecture, knees aching, stomach rumbling, head hurting, eyes tired. School in middle age sometimes feels like this I guess. Heck it probably feels like this even for the youngsters on occassion!