6:00am - Try to wake up in time to go for a run.
6:10, 6:20, 6:30, 6:40 - Fall asleep, hit snooze, repeat...
7:00am - Give up on the run and make coffee instead. Grade, grade, grade.
10:00am - Sign lease on new apartment.
10:30am - Get more coffee.
11:00am - 1:00pm - Meeting with professor about thesis. Discuss methodology, minimalism, and nineteenth-century French fascination with the occult.
1:00-1:10 - Daydream about the dissertation I will write at Columbia in 3 years...
1:10 - 3:00pm - Eat Mexican food and drink a margarita (or two) with a friend visiting from out of town.
3:15pm - Get coffee to cure lingering buzz from margaritas.
3:30pm - 8:30pm - Teach 7 piano lessons. Give very serious and thoughtful feedback about such pieces as "The James Bond Theme," "Singin' the Blues," and "Sonatina in G No. 3."
9:00pm - Sit down to finish grading papers. Too tired. Make a cup of coffee. Still can't focus. Read things on the internet. Blog. Grade two more papers. This is boring as hell. Answer emails from piano student's parents about scheduling and what type of cupcakes we want at the recital Saturday. Write a final exam. Grade one more paper. Seriously, boring as hell.
11:00pm - Give up on papers (these kids can wait two days for their effing projects!). Set alarm for 5:30am (so I can maybe-just-maybe get these papers graded by tomorrow morning at 8am after all...)
11:05pm - Head. On. Pillow. Goodnight, moon!
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Will you spell-check the paper you "right" at Columbia?
oh god! tragic. and scary. and embarrassing...
clearly it is a good thing i quit grading papers and went to bed last night. i was WAY too tired to be trusted with the king's english (reading or "righting").
sheesh.
i'm fixing that now.
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