Managed to get up and dressed and straighten up a little bit and go into campus to teach, but oh, I am very tired. Some of it is jet lag; I got about six hours sleep last night, and it always takes a bit to just adjust to a time change. Some of it just emotional exhaustion, I think. My eyes keep wanting to close.
But I made it into campus, and I do have a relatively light schedule today — teach for an hour, e-mail for an hour, teach for another hour, then drive home. Tomorrow will be a longer work day, but today, I think I can manage. What I really want to do is putter in the garden, but that may have to mostly wait until the weekend. We’ll see.
To be clear, having to go right back to work is not the university’s fault — both Kevin and I are entitled to five days of bereavement leave. I didn’t actually take any leave when I was in California; I taught my classes and attended meetings remotely on Zoom.
But we don’t really want to take the leave, because it disrupts teaching too much, especially at the end of the semester, when we’re trying to help our students get across the finish line. We can cope, I think. Make it to the weekend, at least.
Here’s a pretty sunset, as we were arriving in Chicago last night.