Some say teachers have the world by the balls. Maybe some do, but I can tell you being a professor in nursing an't no joke. I can honestly say, for me, it's a 24/7 kind of job. It's the first and last thing I think of everyday, if I even get any sleep in between.
I'm not complaining, not now, but I can easily say it is all consuming. Between preparing and delivering lecture to 78 students and then having several three hour hands-on labs, finished up with 2 -12 hour shifts at Clara Maass, I am done when Friday comes along. But then it's time to do it all over again.
This week it's Cancer. One three hour lecture to teach everything from A & P, symptoms, treatments, medications, and nursing interventions. All of that to teach them so they learn and not just to pass exams. And next week it'll be Hematology. Just heavy subject after heavy subject.
We're a week away from March 1st when the back bays and rivers open up for fishing. Most waters still have ice on them and my home water at the Delaware is just above freezing at 34 degrees this morning. Needless to say I'm good with a delayed season opener this year. It'll be a spring where those soaking worms and chunks will do better than those tossing flies.
I'm in week 7 of a 15 week semester so hopefully the fish will be around when I'm good to go.