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Anyone else feeling completely puffed out after the end of teaching / assessments?

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dodi1978 · 26/06/2023 18:59

See above! Teaching and assessments are now finished for me till the autumn. I normally am one of those Duracell bunny type academics who is able to just keep going - I normally work 9-4.30 ish, but also work at least three evenings a week at home September- end of May. Don't work weekends, and generally take all my leave. This is just for context - I am not one of these colleagues who completely lives for work.
For a week now, I have felt completely puffed out and just can't produce any more. This should be the time when I am working on grant applications, and I was desperate to get one drafted by the start of the summer holidays. But I am constantly held up still be meetings (PhD students, exam boards, meetings relating to a complex research project for which data collection hasn't even started yet) that break the day up, my DS has two medical appointments on Thursday (which would have been a day without meetings), so I just can't get my brain rolling. In four weeks it's summer holidays, I'll have three weeks off and then three weeks of juggling childcare with work.
Anyway, I am just looking for solidarity. Maybe the academic summer deflation is real for others, too!

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parietal · 26/06/2023 21:21

it is just relentless isn't it? my teaching is mostly MSc projects which means they are full on from now until 30st August, then I get a mountain of marking in Sept and then then next batch start immediately.

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