I am proud of myself today for telling my managing colleagues that I had reached the limits of my capacity two weeks before a deadline rather than stressing and burning out and not being able to meet it anyway.

Major course revisions, end of interstate audition tour, finalisation of 2023 course offers, semester results, 2023 department budgets, and end of year celebrations all fall in the same week and something had to give...

Listening to the Academic Aunties podcast episode on toxic productivity yesterday really helped.

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