Catchin' up

It has now been a month since my surgery and while my incisions and stomach issues are almost 100% healed, I'm still dealing with the after effects of the anesthesia. My surgeon said it takes most people 4-6 weeks to recover from the anesthesia, my friend said it took her about six months, and a co-worker said it took her a year! I definitely hope I'm not one of those special cases who takes forever to recover because the exhaustion is kicking my butt! It's so bad that I'm ready to crawl back into bed 2-3 hours after I get up in the morning (after getting 8 hours of sleep). I almost fell asleep in one of my night classes last week (the students were taking a quiz, so there wasn't much stimulation to keep me going)!

Other than wallowing in self-pity (or sleeping), I've been trying to unpack. We're still delicately traversing Box Mountain (as I've dubbed our hallway), but things are slowly getting better. The kitchen is about 90% unpacked, as is the bedroom (well, excluding the pesky dresser that needs to be assembled) and the bathroom. The living room is another story... one that makes my head want to explode when I think about it.

Probably the biggest obstacle to unpacking is my crazy schedule. The summer semester started almost two weeks ago (right in the middle of the moving process) and due to some unexpected, last minute schedule changes, I ended up with a 9:30-12:30 class and a 5:30-9:30 class on T/TH. How crappy is that? I'm basically at school from 8:30ish until almost 10 at night - not exactly the way I thought I would be spending my summer! My M/W schedule is better (a 12:30-2:30 class & a 2:30-4:30 class on both days), but I'm still tired out at the end of those days, thanks to the surgery/anesthesia induced exhaustion that refuses to go away.

Oh! I almost forgot - I had a third (and final) interview at a super awesome school last week. To borrow from the lovely RussianViolets, it's definitely one that can be dubbed Dream School (well, one of my five Dream Schools in the Chicago area). It has been a long and arduous interview process and not only do I really, really want the job ($10k more p/year, much better school, awesome department), I'll also be really, really annoyed if the other candidate gets it because I know her. In fact, she's one of my current colleagues - she doesn't know that I'm the other candidate, but I know she is because she has a big mouth and told me all about her interview. Keep your fingers, toes, and anything else crossed for me!