So. Very. Tired. And. Not. Finished. Yet.

Great whooshing deadline whooshed past this morning, and I am consoling myself that I am doing the university teaching equivalent of living in a house while renovating.

The roof was already leaking, and the fix I am doing will stop us all getting quite so soggy. My choice is between staying soggy for another few months, or getting something that I had patched at the start of the year re-patched. We wait a couple of days longer than I would like, but we will all have drier feet for the rest of Study Period.

Translation : An assessment that I part fixed in January ..during university closedown while I was camping in the middle of moving boxes….had pain points for everyone, and re-writing it before publishing my course outline that was due this morning means that it will be easier and more useful for student learning, easier to mark and more relevant to the course material. But there is a LOT of double-checking and anticipating what students will ask about if it is not specified. Word counts for everything. Checking for any ambiguities. Spelling it all out clearly, then doing so in French, German and Swahili just in case it was not clear. Doing database searches to ensure the library has access to resources to support it.

Still feel bad not to be Super Duper Woman.

Anyhow, in the middle of head down, bum up, the postie delivered this amazingly coloured, lightweight, super-warm red woolly beanie/muffler/mittenette set from my friend and lifebuoy Tania….

Cannot say how grateful and delighted I am… lots!!! Just what I need to fuel my new beanie addiction.