Too much to say

I have so much to say.  I have so many stories and ideas and questions and emotions and…..I start to write but then I run out of time.  See, I think I am too busy.  If I can’t post it in a flash, it ain’t gunna get posted.  And it bothers me.

See, I can’t seem to do much of anything that might take a longer while.  I can’t take a roadtrip because it takes too long. I can’t run off to the coast for a night because it takes too long. I can’t sit and think about how I am feeling because…yeah it takes too long.  I am a little too busy.  Every evening I have some meeting.  Every day I have multiple meetings and classes and students.  Each morning I hit the office at 7:30 am running and don’t stop until I get home some time around 5.  Tuesday evening I returned to school to attend a program. Tonight it was 6, after a 4-hour meeting.  Tomorrow night I will return to school for the Board meeting, in order to protest budget cuts.

See, we are short again.  Two years ago we had to cut 20 million dollars from the budget.  Programs were cut.  People were laid off.  It was scary and ugly and exhaustive.  This year it is better….we have only 10 million to cut.  *sigh*  Again programs are being cut, positions cut, and it is ugly and exhaustive.  They are cutting the Anthropology department!  Cutting GONE, not just lowering staff/faculty.  Cutting.

But I am still alive.  My department is still alive.  But I am exhausted and need a break and time off and summer…I need summer.  And I need to be able to sit in my house for 2 full days without anyone else in it.  Just two days. In a row 🙂

I am finished whining for the moment. I am sorry I have not kept up with your lives. I do care. But you haven’t exactly slowed your lives down so I can catch up. Sheesh what’s up with that?

take care.
peace~~