T&P Application Fallout

• It's only one week (or so -- who knows anymore) into the new academic year and I am exhausted.

• As in, my eyes are burning to sleep while awake exhausted.

• As in, my head hits the pillow and I am out for the count exhausted.

• As in, the alarm clock sounds and it takes me a full minute to figure out who I am, why the alarm is going off and what day it is exhausted.

• There are damn good reasons for the summer academic break.

• Take that summer academic break away and you have me: exhausted.

• I thought that maybe it was just me blaming my crankiness on a summer lost due to the tenure & promotion ordeal.

• Until I stated, quite flatly, to a colleague (who also just submitted his tenure & promo app) that this year's first year medical class seems super-excited.

• His response?

• "Yeah"

• pause

• "But I don't care."

Yep, neither do I.

This, dear medical students, is why you have apathetic teachers. I'm beginning to understand the whole cranky professor thing.