Do you ever have those days....?

OK, so I've already had like 2 mini-breakdowns today. I think I'm just really exhausted and feeling really overwhelmed. I feel like I've already done so much work, but there's still so much left to do, and I don't know how to handle it. On the one hand, it'll be nice to get away for a week and grade papers in which I have absolutely no personal stake. On the other, all the mental preparation is a little nuts, and thinking about grading papers for 8 hours a day, 6 days in a row is really daunting.

At the moment, though, I'm really stressed about this dissertation workshop. Not really sure why I'm going in the first place. My proposal was really quickly put together, and that's very obvious. Also, since this was 2 months ago, I've pretty much completely changed my topic at this point. Add to that the fact that pretty much everyone else is at a far more advanced stage of research, and I'm feeling really intimidated by the whole thing, and like I'm not going to handle criticism well, even though I know the proposal needs a huge amount of work. I hope I can learn a lot in this process, but right now, I fear I don't have the energy to get through it. I need to sleep for about a week, and then just watch TV for about 4 days. All "Golden Girls" and reality TV. I sort of feel like Blanche in this clip right about now.

All in all, today is epic suck. Hopefully I will have better things to report by Sunday.