Oh, I'm going to regret this come Monday...

I didn't get much done at all on our snow day--which comes as no huge surprise, actually. And I didn't get anything done yesterday, as getting ready to travel and getting myself upstate took most of the day and a lot of my energy.

And I'm realizing now that it's highly unlikely I'll get anything done this whole weekend. I "should" be working now, but instead, I'm trying to figure out where I can get a decent meal--and feeling the delicious but profound effects of the Breath-Body-Mind work I've been doing since 9 a.m. Tomorrow we'll finish for the day at 5 (maybe 4)--and at least I'll have a better sense of food options at that point, but if I'm realistic? Nah, I'm not going to get anything done. Certainly nowhere near what I "should" do to alleviate stress in the week ahead.

But I'm more concerned with alleviating my stress now, this weekend. So, although I brought the work with me (and did check to see that the submissions from the students in the 101 class were complete), it's looking like I'll schlep it all back home with me on Sunday, essentially untouched.

Well, one way or another it will all get done. It always does.

But I have to say, I'm getting increasingly excited about the prospect of switching  my teaching from my academic discipline to the integrative breath/movement/meditation practice I'm learning about here. I'll spend two weekend in April on this (probably, again, thinking I'll get work done and then realizing, nope, not gonna happen), and that's just the start of the journey. I love teaching anyway (the actual teaching part that it), and this is something that also is extraordinarily good for me, too. The opposite of stress-producing. There's a potentially exciting connection out West, too, as a post-retirement option. So ...

I know I've been assigned two electives again for fall (assuming Cathy doesn't change the schedules for some reason), so I'm sure I'll get that far. That puts me at 62. Moving to Montana in the middle of winter probably isn't the best plan, so I'm pretty sure I can make it to spring 2019, as I've been saying. But the more viable the post-retirement work seems, the more tantalizing the prospect of full retirement becomes.

That's not now, however (much as I might wish it were). Now, I need to find healthy food to put in my body and then get some much needed sleep (so I don't fall asleep during the meditation bits tomorrow). Life's just pretty interesting--and generally, pretty wonderful (or so it feels at the moment; I'm going to want to remember this when things get nasty on campus again).