The midterm elections are being held across the USA today, and I am sitting on the sofa at home having a late dinner after giving the second midterm to my large physics class, but the title of this post refers to midterm feelings of mine that have to do with being in the middle of the semester. I realized the other day that I’ve been feeling like all of a sudden I was hugely busy with lots of things, feeling rather drained of energy on some days, and generally feeling pulled apart by doing too many things, helping out on too many tasks, and writing reports and letters and so forth. Then I checked the blog from around this time from last year and discovered that in fact I was having the same sorts of feelings last year at around the same time. So I think there is maybe something about the Fall semester that means that by the middle of it one is (or at least feels) enmeshed in a near-quagmire. Perhaps. Anyway, part of my response to all that was to be quiet the last few days and take it easy on the running around. So that meant I did not go off to the West Hollywood Halloween Carnaval*, nor did I do a bunch of other things going on over the weekend. Instead, I worked quietly at home on the Project and made some pleasing progress, with only the odd trip out now and again, mostly centered around shopping for groceries, fresh fruit and vegetables from the farmer’s market, and so on. Good Times.
The Project. Yes, I keep mentioning it but not talking about it and again I apologize. I will tell you about it soon, and even show you what it is, but as I said long ago, I want to get to the right point before doing that. Some of you have probably guessed already at what it might entail, and you may be even on the right track.
[Paragraph written with some partial information, then deleted before posting… sorry! -cvj]
I do feel that it is nearly time, so not much longer to wait.
Progress has been slow at points due to my other duties. I hope for one more big push forward and then I’ll be ready to tell you about it.
Sit tight.
-cvj
*There seems to be lots of google searches on this event leading to the blog. Unfortunately that means they see last year’s posts about it, or perhaps the year before’s. I hope they notice the date stamp…
