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<p>I&#8217;m currently teaching my first graduate level course online.  I was hired quite late in the year, so didn&#8217;t have as much time as I would have liked to prepare and get organized. In fact, I&#8217;m still putting up new content and just trying to stay several weeks ahead of the students. I feel like I&#8217;m tired all the time, not because I&#8217;m necessarily working so hard, but because the pressure and stress I&#8217;m putting on myself is making me tired. Also because I wake up at night and think about the next thing I want to remember to do.</p>
<p>I am trying to be like the ant and the ram in &#8220;High Hopes.&#8221; I am trying to be the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Engine_That_Could" target="_blank">Little Engine that Could.</a> &#8220;I think I can, I think I can. . .&#8221;</p>
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