Leave Me Out of It

Wednesday is my day off. No teaching, no office hours, no one whining to me about how hard the assignment was. Today, I spent my time running from pillar to post -- after all, I be the RunninFool!

First stop -- Office of the Director of the Program. Turns out I'm in need to a few weeks off the teaching gig. Yep, after 5 years of giving everything I have in the classroom (*sniff, sniff*), it's time for me to take my foot off the gas and get some rest while I write my dissertation. So, next term I will not teach.

THINGS I PROMISE TO DO WHILE I AM NOT TEACHING NEXT TERM:

Eat properly
Rest often
Run like the Fool I have become (every other day)
Learn to really meditate
Take midday naps
Answer e-mail only on the weekends
Begin intermediate Salsa dancing lessons
Bake bread
Call my Mother each day
Start writing letters again -- it's so gentile
Clean out the top of the closet
Give away what I no longer wear -- or what I wish I'd never bought in the first place
Practice my Italian
Have a massage once a week
Drink more water
WRITE MY DISSERTATION

Ambitious list, I know... But that's what time off is for, right?