And the Energy Flow Pretty Much Died Out by 6 PM Last Night. I Realized I Have Nothing Left and Need Time to Recharge.

February tends to be rough with University and K-12 programming and responsibilities, and I knew this week called for 14-hour days (hence working all last weekend to prepare ahead), but I didn't anticipate the crash that came last night. I had to pull out of a commitment and simply come home to sleep. Today is a day of many commitments that I can't miss, so I needed to get home to close my eyes. 

Pooped early in a work-week because there's more and more work being put on the workers. 

I've been watching Guilded Age documentaries and reading more about the period of time when the uber-rich exploited recent immigrants from Ireland, Russia, Italy, etc. and how they were willing to work for so little because they were thankful for having a job. But then the work got so exploitive, so workers joined forces to speak up for rights, which brought on unions, etc. We seem to be in a variation of this right now, and I doubt relief will come for K-12 teachers, and I'm baring witness to the unbelievable exploitation of University faculty to fill roles they weren't hired to fill. I guess we're back to a variation of those times. Of course, I'm not doing all this for $5 a week like they did. The economy has changed to give more people opportunities. That's been a nice compromise for a while, but it seems we're back in a place where a class of people want to push the limits on how much they can exploit the worker. I guess the only way around this is to be self-employed.  

Anyway, I don't have to be in a school this morning, but have University/NWP commitments all day until late tonight. I don't normally get tired so feel a little lopsided this morning as I drink my coffee. I'm seeing all still needing to be done and I'm not sure if it is age, a cold coming on, the times we live in, but I feel 100% spent. 

And with that....off I go.