t minus two weeks

In two weeks, I will be teaching.

I keep thinking I need to practice waking up earlier. I had been getting up around 8:30. I'll be teaching at 8 in the morning (waking up at 7? maybe?). I thought I'd push my wake-up time earlier over time. Of course, I've been waking up later and later instead; Turing has been sick and sleeping in while it has been ridiculously foggy around here and I keep wanting to stay in bed. Today, I slept in until 9.

Maybe tomorrow I'll force myself out of bed earlier.

Yeah, right.

Every week, I think about sleeping at a childless friend's house over the weekend and leaving Trouble with the children at night. Huxley has been getting up every 3 hours and a night or two of continuous sleep sounds amazing. But then I think that a night or two of continuous sleep would be great but then having to go back to constant waking would just be that much harder. Dunno. I've now thought about it and not done it about four weeks in a row.

But my brain in definitely working a lot better - the hormones have washed out or the nutritional drain on my body is evening out or something. Despite feeling tired, I feel more functional. Vroom.

I'm making a lot of progress on class prep. I think, at a minimum, I'll have a third of my lectures prepared before classes start. If I stay focused, I'll have more like half prepared. And I'll be done with the lectures about which I know the least and have had to do the most background reading. Or so I keep telling myself.

Maybe the adrenaline will get me out of bed earlier, soon.

Forward!