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:) Tomorrow's students aren't *quite* ready to return to classes, so I guess I'll have the rest of my revisions finished and my novel out to my beta reader then instead.
My biggest challenge this year will be *pacing myself* so I don't burn out. Instead of trying to do "all the things", if I've finished my day's work I will *stop*, not frantically try to get the jump on tomorrow's work, too.
It'll take... a little practice, if today was any indication--but we'll get there. 🙃 I hope.
@MLClark My attitude towards work is "Prioritise intelligently and do everything you possibly can within the time you're being paid for... but nothing more".
I used to have a different attitude - trying to get *literally* everything done, even if it took some extra time - but then they massively cut my staff while also raising workload, and I had to make myself adopt a new mentality just for sanity's sake.
I can only afford to care if caring won't burn me out / drive me 'round the bend.