Update: Chain Reaction – Part 41

Uh, so, hello.

It’s been…well, it’s been a week, hasn’t it? Beyond the real world, which is something I’m still struggling to wrap my head around, I had the end of the marking period on Wednesday, and I graded around 300 assignments. I wish I were making that up, but I’m not. I’ve got 109 students, and I was grading at least 2 assignments in each class, including a test which actually had to be read. Not to mention reverifying grades, letting kids finish late work (wait, that math makes it closer to 400–this is why you don’t do math it is never your friend).

I did all of that by 3PM, but I did it on basically two hours of sleep. So I was basically useless yesterday. Just completely burnt out and needing to disassociate. I played The Sims 4 (my legacy family is going THROUGH it right now), watched some television, caught up on GH, and went to bed early.

I feel better today — well, more energy. Got some work done, but I can’t believe I’m already halfway through my four-day break.

I promise we’ll get into a routine here with Flash Fiction. I really am trying very hard. It’s just…been a really rough start to the year, professionally and personally, and I’m really just putting one foot in front of the other, like a lot of us are right now.

I’m still on Twitter for now, but I’ve moved most of my GH related posting to Blue Sky — a lot of us in the Liason community did. You can find me there with the @crimsonglass handle. I’ll probably be adjusting the Twitter feed on the sidebar soon.

I don’t know the next time I’m posting, so following me there or on Twitter or subscribing to the feed here on CG (link in sidebar) is your best bet. I will do everything possible to make sure I’m posting weekly.

See you when I see you.

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