rebeccmeister | Things that frustrate [status]

Last Friday and Saturday's rowing-related activities managed to piss off my hips and lower back to the point where I'm nervous about going back to practice. Back to more quality time with my friend Priscilla Patrick!

I have a stack of lab reports to grade. NOW is the time to work on them. Oh, look, what's that shiny fun thing over there??

I've been stuck in bureaucratic hell related to my volunteer role organizing Events for the rowing club. I think I just have to draw the line, hard, at the end of this year. This feels like a year where I need to reclaim who I am in the midst of a pile of responsibilities.

Although the forecast through the rest of the week is for warmer weather, yesterday afternoon we received another 2-inch pile of snow. You might recall that I drove to work yesterday, for a change. It actually wasn't so frustrating to drive home, but it was interesting to learn how the car reacted when I lost traction on some slippery side streets (no major loss of traction, just a little slipping and sliding, heh). I was glad I had those 5 cinderblocks in the trunk, for ballast.

I just don't really feel like biking to work through the slop today, so I'm going to stay home and grade. Or, you know, work on painting oars and other fun shiny projects.

I clearly need to come up with a grading incentive strategy.