Stress Causes Writer’s Block (I promise)

I put the wedding planning paper away last night. I couldn’t look at it any longer. Instead, I engaged in an hour of Guitar Hero and vowed to get back to work this morning. It didn’t work. So, I started work on another paper and started working on my personal final paper writing schedule. All this did was give me a headache and force me to seek escape in the form of Harvey Fierstein movie (Torch Song Trilogy).

If I can say one thing about the last four weeks of class, it is that they are so amazingly stressful just as a student. We won’t even discuss the aspect of teaching and trying to finish classes. I know that stress causes me to have writer’s block. I’ve been feeling it over the past few days. But what’s really gotten the bee in my petticoat, is the schedule shift in my classes. I hope that as a teacher I am able to realize when I have assigned too much busywork to students. You can only expect a person to learn so much in the span of sixteen weeks. Fourteen if you really think about it. The first week is always general information and the last week is finals. So what sense does it make at the end of week eleven to add three more things to a list for students to accomplish. Suddenly, I have a paper (that was previously unassigned) that’s due in two weeks and in no way relates to anything we’ve done in class thus far. And, as if that isn’t enough, I also have to include a PowerPoint of my paper with the final paper at the end of the semester. Wouldn’t it make more sense to adjust the schedule to be lighter during the last few weeks of class? I mean come on, how much more work can you pile on? Do these people not remember when they were trying to juggle three jobs, grade papers, and keep a 4.0? Apparently not.

Alright, I feel better. Now, back to the salt mines.