Teaching Day Gack

Beginning of term has been an avalanche, I feel like I often do by the end of term, completely swamped. Mourning mom made the break unbreaklike to say the least and I'm honestly feeling like a bug exposed on a slide in classroom settings at the moment, trying not to burst into exasperated tears or into enraged rants at any moment, about who knows what, and all my thesis students and independent study students (who are wonderful and deserve better) feel like saucers spinning on poles. Three insomnia nights in a row isn't helping. Gack!