This has been a crazy semester for me. I’m redeveloping both of my courses, which is a bigger challenge than I thought it would be. I’m teaching some new technologies that I haven’t used before, so there’s a lot of learning involved before I can even start preparing lecture and lab materials. I barely get time to do the other things that I’m now responsible for at work, let alone any kind of social activities. My car seriously needs a mechanic but I just haven’t had time to take it. I have a serious issue with the radiator or radiator hoses which means I need to pour about a 3L bottle of water into it every day or two. Fortunately I’m only doing short trips so it doesn’t have time to heat up much, but the noise it’s making is quite unsettling.

At the moment, I’m working between 12 and 16 hours a day. A fairly typical day has me arriving at work about 8:30am and getting get home around 10pm. Weekends I usually average about 6-8 hours a day. I haven’t been to the gym in months and I haven’t cooked a meal in months. It’s not a very healthy (or cheap) way to live.
We are currently in Week 9 of the semester and I have lectures prepared for tomorrow. Tomorrow when I’m not lecturing, I’ll prepare lectures for Wednesday and labs for Friday. On Thursday, I’ll prepare Friday’s lectures. On the weekend, I’ll make the two tests my students just sat and the assignment they handed in two weeks ago.
With a bit of luck, things will improve.
At any rate, I only have 3 and a half weeks left to survive this semester. And never again will I redesign two courses at once.