Bad Week

This has been a bad week. Too much to do, not enough time to do it in. Too little help doing it all. I had to charge a student with an honor code violation, a process that takes hours and hours of time and is emotionally exhausting, especially since it is a career killer... (this student currently holds security clearance for the government and a cheating conviction in his grad class means he loses his job and probably his career. But it is unquestionable he cheated, and then blatantly lied when I asked him about it.) I had to buy, make, and assemble the framed certificates to present at the MARA club meeting. I had to prepare for and meet my on-line class, teach my normal classes, grade and return projects for two classes, grade and return group projects for another class, calculate cumulative weighted and scaled presentation grades, make a faculty senate meeting, meet with students to answer questions, make up two quizzes, prep for classes, create three complete exams for finals next week and get them ready to be duplicated, and put together and send out the ham radio newsletter. I had to purchase and stock office supplies for the church office. I had to update the Belgian student reunion page and make some arrangements on that event. I had to hunt down my Belgian cell phone and deliver to Dr. Wright to add some time to while he's in Antwerp this coming week. I've put in 15-hour days at the office almost every day this week. And now, I've got to get up again at 6 in the morning to meet the LDS emergency ham radio net on the 80-meter shortwave band tomorrow morning. I still have some projects to grade, and then I have to post almost 300 student scores on the on-line student gradebook. I've got to prepare a Sunday School lesson for Sunday morning, and start with the church's year end financial rituals. It's time to start thinking about bringing up the Christmas tree and putting the lights out in front of the house. And I'm just getting over one of the worst colds I've had in years. Bad week.