fuzzy brain

I'm suffering from mid-quarter mental fuzziness, the kind that results when my early optimism and belief that I ought to be able to complete everything assigned to me collide with that panicky feeling that the quarter will be ending soon. I am beginning to get very worried about getting everything done, but haven't yet adopted the due date induced focus that I get at the end of the quarter, where I work on what I have to and just forget about other things out of necessity. Do you know that feeling where you're still half-heartedly keeping to-do lists even though you know there's important stuff you keep forgetting to put on them? Yeah, that's where I am right now.

I need to be reading Clarissa, but I think I'm going to take a few minutes first and just do some little things that have been bugging me, like e-mailing my course director about class observations and trying to get advice about the drama class I'm teaching next quarter. I might even rummage through that scary pile of papers on my desk and try to see if there's anything in there that I should be acting on now. In case they, you know, plan to self-destruct or something.