A little foreword: I'm sure my students reading this can totally relate. Although in their case, what we tell them to do is the reason for their madness. Hey guys, hindi lang kayo ang praning pag endsem na, ano? Clarify ko lang. Kami rin! Sino pa bang magchecheck ng mga exam ninyo at mga sinubmit ninyo? Di ba kami din? -- not that i'm complaining, okay? Wink, wink. (Si Mam, sabay bawi.) Plus... you don't have the monopoly on procrastination. Parepareho lang tayong procrastinators. Hehehe...
It’s that time of the year again when I’m so swamped with work that I can’t imagine life after my deadlines. Not that I have this every year. Last year at this time, I was taking my sweet time through the sunny streets of California with my cousins, without a care in the world. That, however, was ages and a whole world ago! I better get back to reality now before I lose track of time again…
Reality being the following things I need to finish this week: (1) the exams I need to check, (2) final projects and term papers I need to read and grade, (3) the peer evaluation sheets I need to record for the groups in my classes, (4) the mp3’s from ate abbie I need to listen to for the convention worship line-up, (5) the research paper for Beijing that I need to submit on April 1 but I haven’t even started to write yet, and—I almost forgot!! drats—(6) the grades for the graduate students at UP ITTC I have to submit TODAY… aaaarrrrgggggh.
Not that I’m blaming anything for this pile-up of work. As always, it’s my own procrastination that led me to this state. I should be used to it by now, di ba? But noooooo. As always also, I need to grunt about it.
Julia Fordham sings in my head: “Where does the time go?” Curtis Stigers sings back: Does anyone know?” Please somebody answer this for me! If I can only get some of that lost time back, I think I can manage to work through each of those deadlines without going nuts…
But I can only hope and see if I'm still sane by next week. By that time I hope I’m done with most everything in that list and can talk here about the “pleasanter” things in life like movie reviews, new books, and Metro Manila weather--which is mighty fine these last days, I just have to say... so au revoir, people! See you next week!
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