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the syllabus just keeps growing

My professor added another 40 pages to this week’s reading, just a one-line update in the course portal about an hour before tonight’s seminar. No explanation, no apology, nothing.

I’m already staying up past midnight more nights than I’d like because of this program, usually closer to 1am, and I’m 64, not 24 anymore. My body makes sure I know the difference by the time I’m up the next morning.

Skin’s actually been fine lately, so that’s not even what’s bothering me tonight. It’s more that I signed up for one seminar thinking I had a decent handle on the workload, and every few weeks it quietly gets heavier without anyone checking if that still works for the rest of us.

Cat hiding inside a basket

Had to skip my usual stretching before bed just to get through the extra pages, and now my shoulders are tight on top of everything else! Feels like a small thing to be annoyed about at my age, but here I am anyway.

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  • WellnessWanderer10.16

    ugh, the no-explanation last-minute add is the worst part, that happened to me too!

  • DewyDreamer10.16

    oof, I was up past midnight for mine last week too, around 1am

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