Me: Why can't you just slow down?
Also me: ivegotamillionthingstodo
Also me again: This is not your fault. It's how the system is organized: to keep us busy; unable to join in community, organize, and demand what we need. We have to push back. #speed #urgency #GrindCulture

Me: Why can't you just slow down, spend some time with family and friends?
Also me: ivegotamillionthingstodo workistoobusy lotsofchoresathome havetodropmykidoff okseeyoulaterbye!
#speed #rushing #urgency #grindculture

discovering the #restIsResistance ht. Good one. #grindCulture too.

"How long have the planets been circling the sun? Are they getting anywhere, and do they go faster and faster in order to arrive? How often has the spring returned to the earth? Does it come faster and fancier every year, to be sure to be better then last spring, and to hurry on its way to the spring that shall out-spring all springs?" -- Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity (1951)
#life #pace #time #timeless #slow #rest anti-#grindCulture anti-#hustle #ministryofnaps

I have to work this weekend, which I'm not happy about. #SelfCare today means red lentil soup and Naan with ghee for lunch, and stopping to #meditate at 5 no matter what. Snatching those bits of #rest where I can, like reading Leviathan Wakes while I eat.

What are you doing to #BeKindToYourself today?

#MentalHealth #RestIsResistance
#GrindCulture
#HigherEd
#AdjunctLife

Speaking of #grinding. . . an hour or two left to finish setting up my online course for Monday morning (whew! feels like an oncoming freight train) and hours upon hours to finish this #teaching academy I got "volunteered" for by its deadline--also Monday.

Phew.

Another weekend shot.

#HigherEd #AdjunctLife #GrindCulture

I'm glad I finally escaped #grindculture ..

..incorrectly correlating #work #success with #happiness...

..what a #scam..

@mathewoakes you are so right! It's mentally & emotionally exhausting & its sedentary nature means it's bad for the body as well. I am sooo glad you have this opportunity to unwind!

Unfortunately the reality for most of us (gig workers in the corporate academic economy) there is little real break. I get next week "off" only because I have already worked my contract hours for this term. Spring syllabi were due yesterday. Pre-planning starts on the 2nd. Etc.

#GrindCulture

@profamymcgovern @academicchatter Academic #GrindCulture was awful before COVID as our uni went more & more corporate but the last 2 years? Whew. This week I began having difficulty breathing, felt like I was wearing a too-tight bra when I was going commando. . . Scared myself silly until I figured out it was muscle tension in my chest. I was a clinical psychologist & taught #SressManagement for almost 30 years & I did not know this was possible.

Is anybody else reading #RestIsResistance? I want to reimagine my IntroToPsych course as a space of rest & resistance, to yank us out of #GrindCulture for 15 weeks.

There's a lot I've already done but it was not conscious, intentional. I want to pull these bits together, make it explicit, expand on it, & I want to talk to others who are doing this.

I want my class to be restorative--a place of growth & healing not exhaustion, stress, & burnout.

#NapMinistry
#TriciaHersey
#Teaching
#HigherEd

Is anybody else reading #RestIsResistance? I want to reimagine my IntroToPsych course as a space of rest & resistance, to yank us out of #GrindCulture for 15 weeks.

There's a lot I've already done but it was not conscious, intentional. I want to pull these bits together, make it explicit, expand on it, & I want to talk to others who are doing this.

I want my class to be restorative--a place of growth & healing not exhaustion, stress, & burnout.

#NapMinistry
#TriciaHersey
#Teaching
#HigherEd