When Everything Becomes Nothing
Dunkirk NY – The real trouble with being busy is that, when you really start to crank up your day and move from one part of the day to the next, all the moments in your day start to crush themselves together and become such a blur that it all feels like one big nothing. Yesterday was a good example of that. I know that I did many thing – taught a class, advised a student, uploaded a video, wrote a post for the TADA blog, got the curricular paperwork out the door, had lunch, taught another class, cut Hamlet for that class down to 90 minutes, sent out notices for Learning Assistants for next semester, assigned ticket takers for this weekend and next, got my glasses fixed, had dinner, ran a 4-hour rehearsal of La Bohème, came home, went to sleep. That’s a lot.
And yet, when I sit to reflect this morning before I start another such day, it feels like nothing. A lot of tasks adding up to not much. To-do items checked off. Then I get to wondering – how did I let myself get into this position? Again? -twl
