valiha | (Reply)

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Thing is, and I don't want to sound ungrateful, but I have more work than I know what to do with. I know what it's like to be out of a job and to live on the mercy of your family. But I would really like to have at least one week of interrupted sleep.

I teach Introduction to Academic Writing. I've got 43 students (I just counted them), and they are beginner and intermediate students. They have to write something every other week, and have several quizzes over the course of the semester, a midterm and a final. Add the library on top of that, plus acquisitions - and there's nothing I loathe more than having to remind people to please let us know in advance what they will be teaching, what books they will need and how many students will buy them and still have people send me requests a month into the semester. Though juggling publishers and shippers comes in at close second. Add to that the postgrad, where I have to search for stuff everyone's already familiar with and read twice as much just to be able to keep up, I'm sure you can understand my frustration. I'm just bone tired.

Which is why I can't figure out why on Earth I ever volunteered for the Mag7BB. :headdesk: I must be a masochist at heart.

Hm, well, I was going to say, yes please, I'd appreciate whatever you can spare. I'll probably need an overview as well as some details on Dublin Core. I have some lectures but they're way over my head.