Just Beat

How has it only been two days of online teaching? I feel like we should be at least a week into school. Meanwhile, my to-do list just keeps growing as I'm trying to stay ahead in building content, playing tech support for my students, grading work that's already coming in, fielding questions, dealing with online antics (I had my first Zoom-bomber today), and trying to fix the inevitable errors that are popping up with what I've put out there. All of this is going on while I'm still trying to be supportive of, and instructive to, my students. Oh, and I can't forget to make up packets of all the work that I had to make paperless earlier.

I know that part of my issue is that I'm overly ambitious in what I'm trying to produce for my students, and I keep finding more things that I could do to make my class more intuitive--or at least more user-friendly. The enormity and the interconnectedness of everything I still need to put together makes it difficult to figure out which part should be completed first. No sooner do I get to work on one part than I realize that I need to get something else done before I can finish the part I'm working on.

Sorry for the whining. I've been relying on coffee rather than a full night's sleep lately, and it's catching up with me. In truth, everything is coming together, but like making sausages, it's not a pretty process.