In the time since I last posted regularly here and when the blog rebooted I’ve shifted my career stack by becoming a full time professor. This was a challenging year. Our university experienced some budget issues, decided to merge with a larger university which was presented as our way through these challenges, we spent a lot of time prepping, then our president abruptly resigned, the merger was called off, and all of this happened while Emily was going through a cancer diagnosis.
I’m glad to have survived a rough year. The intensity of a schedule where so much work comes home with you combined with so much uncertainty (country, workplace, personal crisis) meant a lot of challenges faced this year.
But as of Tuesday my grades are turned in. I spent yesterday napping. Today is errands. Catching up on two weeks of email. Thinking about the impact of LLMs on college students a lot (for reasons).
Last year I slept for two weeks after. This year with LDN (I talk about My Long Covid brain fog beater: low-dose Naltrexone here) I am no longer so exhausted my hands are shaking like they were after graduation the prior two years, though I am beat.
I figure I will take it easy until after the weekend…