Adventures of Fast Turtle and Baby Bug

Well, we are off to Turkey tomorrow…I almost can’t believe it! The semester is done, all papers turned in, work today is wrapping up 500 loose threads so that everything doesn’t unravel while I’m gone. Okay, perhaps that’s a little overstating my importance here. Just a little.

I am a little worried about the no-sleeping thing. And I don’t mean the kids. See, I’m one of those needs eight hours of sleep people. I’m not a late-night person by nature. But, when you have a full courseload and kids and a job, well, the 8pm-1am time is prime work time. Or, really, the ONLY time to get anything done, full stop. Since I’ve been staying up late and getting up early pretty much every day for the past couple weeks, my body seems to think this is the new normal. This morning, when I could actually “sleep in,” I was WIDE AWAKE at 5:45am. After going to bed at 1am (which, now that I think about it, is perhaps the problem). Maybe I should try going to bed really early tonight to catch up on sleep? (Ignoring for the moment the little problem of finishing packing for the 4 of us for 3 weeks away.) Or, just hope we can all sleep on the plane? (Note to self: pack benadryl).

I don’t have a good feeling about the sleep prognosis, y’all…

But, Turkey? That will be fun! See you all in June…

So, last night was the last class of the semester for one of my courses. We were capping off the course by discussing our final papers–which I undoubtedly should be writing right now, rather than chatting here. But I digress–and the prof. asked me to talk about mine. Which, okay, I had already talked about mine last week, but I’m going to take it as a compliment that he wants to hear more about it. So I’m talking about how I’m writing about the “borderlands” concept as being not only a geo-political space but also a psycho-social space, and why this is important (if you want to know, I’m happy to share the paper. You know, once it’s done!), blah blah blah…and then, out of nowhere, he asks, “So it the overlap of cultures, languages, peoples, etc. a type of synchronicity?” The whole class waited with bated (or, more likely, yawning) breath while I tried to come up with a good, scholarly answer. While trying hard not to blurt out, “Hey! That’s my blog!” Which probably would not have earned me any points, but perhaps a few snickers.

Now I’m thinking, though…what if he was on to something? There’s something teasing at me…ah, probably just my un-written paper with its siren call: Come wriiiiiite me! I’m due Moooondaaaay! WRIIIITE MEEEEE!