I am decidedly not a morning person. I hate waking up and getting out of bed. I requested (and thankfully got) a schedule for the Fall semester that doesn't start before 10am. I just don't like mornings.


That said, I am most productive in the morning. Oh, the irony! (That is irony, right? Not in the Alanis Morisette way? Hmmm....). Excepting the little snooze I took from 9:30-10am this morning, I started doing work around 8am and plugged away (even while eating lunch and with a few internet breaks) until about a few minutes ago (about 12:45pm). I still have a lot to do. At the very least, I need to write one more lecture for tomorrow and make a study guide. In an ideal world, I would write 3 lectures, create a study guide, and make up an exam. I know the ideal world isn't happening, so 2 lectures and an exam can be worked on tomorrow.


But for some reason, especially when working at home (like today), when it gets to be 1pm (or close to it), my work productive screeches to a halt and I have zero motivation to continue (hey, that's why I'm blogging instead of lecture writing!). I can usually convince myself to sluggishly solider on promising myself a break to watch General Hospital and then a bit more work (terrible, I know!). It seems that I'll make it to 3 o'clock with little more finished than at 1, and after breaking for TV time, I can't get back to it. I'll be on the computer, but I'll be sucked into that damn hamster launching game the Yarn Harlot blogged about a few days ago.


Remember that pretty schedule that I posted about a week or two ago? Yeah, haven't yet gotten that to work. It is possible that after this week, I'll be ready to be on the schedule, but I fear that it might be Spring Break before I really get that together. Two weeks of school finished and already I'm looking forward to the break in the middle of March... oh, and then just the long haul through April and it will be summer vacation! And lucky me is teaching the same courses next fall that I taught last fall and many, many times in grad school!


Ok, now I'm rambling... work, work, work... send productive work vibes my way...