Mid-Semester Slump

I made it through mid-terms only slightly brain-damaged and reveled in a week with no exams looming ahead of me. Then I survived the second lab practical with confidence, using the At Home Practical Mayhem technique (TM totally pending).

Now it’s nearly midnight on Tuesday, and I have an OCHEM exam on Monday. I also have not even started payroll at work, which is usually done by the time I leave Tuesday evenings, and promised to have scripts for tutorial videos ready and waiting for the “film” crew by 10AM tomorrow.

Long story short? I am feeling major burnout and have hit the mid-semester slump.

The mid-semester slump is like a tiny mid-life crisis that occurs only to college students, twice to three times per year. That point when you start to fantasize about signing on to teach English abroad or becoming a yoga instructor on a cruise line. Until you remember you suck at languages and don’t know more than 2 yoga poses. Crap. You don’t want to study, but you can’t rationalize having proper fun… so you stay longer at work or clean the kitchen or lay on the couch and watch 80s movies instead.

It is the worst part of the semester, exponentially worse than finals, which at least give you a shiny beacon of “Oh thank God, it’s almost over!”.

And it has grabbed me by the face like a zombie about to nom my brains.